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Report Exposes How Trump’s Vast Holdings Are Already “Jeopardizing US Interests” Around the World
Trump is using his president-elect status to cozy up to dictators and benefit the family's business.
“Give Us the Names”: Strange Days at the Department of Energy
The Trump team's request for climate scientists' names echoes some ominous chapters of history.
Obama’s EPA Has a Weakness for Monsanto
Who calls the shots at the EPA when it comes to carcinogenic pesticides? Monsanto or scientists?
Don’t Certify Electors and Electoral College Vote Without Full Recount
The American people deserve to know that the outcome of this election is actually valid.
McConnell Won’t Say if Tillerson Can Be Confirmed as Secretary of State
Tea leaves in the Senate suggest it could be an uphill battle to get Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson confirmed.
Electoral College Members Seek Intel Briefing on Possible Russian Meddling in Election to Aid Trump
This year electors in states won by Donald Trump are facing mounting pressure to reject his presidency.
Greg Palast: By Rejecting Recount, Is Michigan Covering Up 75,000 Ballots Never Counted?
Trump won Michigan by fewer than 11,000 votes.
Before Bernie Sanders Was Michael Manley: Social Revolutionaries of the Third World
Many Third World leaders have come to office with plans for changes similar to those advocated by Sanders.
Waking Up to the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act
We have created an infrastructure for really serious social and political control.
Dangerous Americans: The Trump Nominees in Full
This rogue's gallery is, far and away, the most dangerous rack of nominees ever assembled.