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Is the US Public Ready for Single-Payer National Health Insurance?
Health care reform has become a top-down issue — corporate profits and oligarchy vs. democracy and the public interest.
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Poverty Injection
Dakota Access Pipeline Company Attacks Native Americans With Dogs and Pepper Spray
The pipeline has faced months of resistance from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
Did the Dakota Access Pipeline Company Deliberately Destroy Sacred Sioux Burial Sites?
As bulldozers cleared earth, hundreds of Native Americans from many different tribes rushed onto the construction site to protect the sacred site.
What Is the Tipping Point? Everyday Authoritarianism in the US
Cultural critic Henry Giroux explains how a new strain of authoritarianism has seized US politics and culture.
“The Making of Donald Trump”: David Cay Johnston on Trump’s Ties to the Mob and Drug Traffickers
Johnston's new biography of Donald Trump has just been published; it's called “The Making of Donald Trump.”
The “Shocking” Truth About Election Rigging in the United States
Paperless and privatized electronic voting systems have made the US tradition of election rigging that much easier.
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For-Profit Pipeline Company Claims “Public Benefit” in Seizing Private Lands in Pennsylvania
New and protracted battles in the fracking war are breaking out near the Marcellus Shale over pipeline companies' use of eminent domain.
How Much Will the War on Unions Cost You This Labor Day?
The decline of unions has probably cost you, or someone close to you, thousands of dollars since last Labor Day.
The Link Between Uranium From the Congo and Hiroshima: A Story of Twin Tragedies
The uranium used to build the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima came from the Shinkolobwe mine in the province of Katanga.