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Too Rigged to Fail: The Homeowner HAMPster Wheel of Mortgage Fraud
If the government won't break up the banks, then we the people need to break up WITH the banks.
Stats: The Democrats Ignore the Poor at Their Own Peril
Folding the poor into the middle class does not serve the cause of either Democratic presidential candidate's campaign.
Dean Baker | Think Trump’s 45 Percent Tariffs Are Bad? Try Obama’s 10,000 Percent Tariffs
We do face a very real threat of protectionism, but it is in the form of the Obama administration pushing for stronger patent protections in the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Entering Uncharted Territory in Washington: Are We in a New American World?
Lest you think that there's nothing new under the sun, the context for everything happening in our world is so new as to be outside of thousands of years …
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Building New “Nonviolent Cities”
Nonviolent cities would work to end racism, poverty, homelessness and violence at every level and in every form.
Do You Know What It’s Like to Have an Abortion?
We are your fellow human beings, controlled and harassed for happening to be born into the body that gives birth.
Easter 1916 at 100: Its Marxian Dimension
The 20th century was also marked by cataclysmic events in the Global South, not just Europe.
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US Intelligence Veterans Warn Against Torture
Some of today's presidential candidates are brimming with what we're told are sage foreign policy advisers.
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The Foundational Violence Underlying North Carolina’s Attack on Trans Women
A transphobic North Carolina law stems from the anti-trans and anti-queer violence that proliferates in our society.
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NYPD’s Arrests of Citizen Journalists Should Spark Outrage
If freedom of the press means anything, it should protect the growing number of people who use media to hold powerful institutions accountable.