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Trump’s Pick to Head the FBI Wouldn’t Say Whether He’d Spy on Mosques — the Senate Confirmed Him Anyway
Both the FBI and the Trump administration benefit from self-perpetuating Islamophobia.
Fines for Big Financial Firms Have Plunged Under Trump
The amount of penalties that federal regulators have collected from misbehaving financial firms has declined sharply in the first 200 days of Trump.
Millennials Are Killing the Oil Industry
If there's any other defining trait of millennials, it's that we're a political generation, and lean fairly far to the left.
“We Can’t Let Our Guard Down”: Republicans Could Use Budget as Cudgel Against Medicaid
The Republican effort to cut taxes for the wealthy by terminating health care for poor and middle-class families is very much alive.
Slouching Toward Mar-a-Lago: The Post-Cold-War Consensus Collapses
What's the point of being an American?
Boycotts to Achieve Political Change Are Forms of Political Speech
Any attempt by Congress to legislate against a grassroots movement contradicts the values that are embodied in the First Amendment.
Formerly Jailed CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou: Jeff Sessions Is Extending Obama’s War on Leaks
John Kiriakou discusses the FBI's newly formed team for handling leaks.
Richard D. Wolff Debates FOX’s Stuart Varney About Socialism
The return to socialism as a better alternative in current US society is because capitalism has failed them.
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Playing the Country Card
The White House is really milking the rural-urban divide.
Is a Healthy Environment a Human Right? Testing the Idea in Appalachia
Do we have a fundamental right to breathe clean air, drink clean water and eat safe food?