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Why Is It So Hard to Reduce the Pentagon Budget?
What accounts for the Department of Defense's ability to keep a stranglehold on your tax dollars year after endless year?
Filmmaker Deia Schlosberg on Her Arrest While Filming an Activist Shutting Down a Tar Sands Pipeline
Schlosberg shares a message for other journalists covering climate change and the oil and gas industry.
The Better Business Bureau Downgraded Wells Fargo; It’s Not Enough
What took so long? If we judged big banks by the same standards we apply to auto body shops or dry cleaners, they'd have all been discredited a long …
Five Terrifying Things From Trump’s Blueprint for His First 100 Days if Elected
His promise to immediately appoint a far right justice to the Supreme Court was just the start.
One of the Biggest Media Mergers Ever May Be on the Horizon
AT&T is an enormous internet gatekeeper with a horrible track record of overcharging you, limiting your choices and spying on you.
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“Today Is One of the Heaviest Days of My Life”
The courage, faith and resilience of Mohammed and his family should inspire us all.
Long-Standing Economic Issues Cloud the Future of Both Parties
Those who overlook the country's structural economic problems have another big surprise coming in the post-2016 electoral world.
Court Workers Take the Lead: Bay Area Unionists Gear Up for Contract Fights
In August, over 300 workers walked off the job.
Many Voters Are Disenfranchised by Bad Ballot Design
There is in fact a widespread problem with ballots in the United States: they're often horribly designed.
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline Could Be the East Coast’s Dakota Access Pipeline
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is only one among a slew of planned pipelines across the US.