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Betraying ‘Hire American’ Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs
by Lauren McCauley
Though he has the power, President Trump has yet to wield his executive authority to stop U.S. jobs from being shipped abroad
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It’s Now Been Three Long Years Since Flint Had Clean Water
by Nika Knight
Flint, Michigan has not had clean water since the city switched its water source to the Flint River on April 24, 2014
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Ivanka Trump Is Booed, Hissed in Germany for Defending Donald Trump
by Nika Knight
German audience also appeared confused by prominent role president’s daughter is playing in the administration
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‘Truly Dumb’: Why $2.4 Trillion Corporate Tax Cut Will Not Magically Pay for Itself
by Jon Queally
Economists and tax experts push back against White House reported plan to slash corporate rate by 60 percent
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‘Conveyor Belt of Death’ Continues as Arkansas Carries Out Double Execution
by Lauren McCauley
‘The sentences of Jack Jones and Marcel Williams are another heinous example of how the death penalty is applied to people with severe mental impairments and history of abuse’
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Ontario to Launch North America’s First Test of Universal Basic Income
by Nadia Prupis
“We want to find out whether a basic income makes a positive difference in people’s lives”
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FCC’s “Puppet Bureaucrat” Chair Pai to Announce Plan to Kill Net Neutrality
by Nadia Prupis
“Trump’s FCC chairman has put on blinders because he’s determined to take away basic rights against online discrimination that Congress granted everyone in this country”
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Attention, Please: We Can Guarantee Healthcare for All Californians
by Deborah Burger
It’s time for a better plan. One that puts everybody in and leaves nobody out.
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Making Sense of the Deportation Debate
by Aviva Chomsky
How Bill Clinton and Barack Obama laid the groundwork for Trump’s immigration policies
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Where Is the Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders of Foreign Policy?
by Katrina vanden Heuvel
Many Democrats are positioning themselves to take on Trump four years from now. They’d be wise to seek leadership by demonstrating it.
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Why Was Heath Mello Thrown Under the Bus?
by D.D. Guttenplan
Was the candidate for mayor of Omaha held to a different standard than other Democrats?
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Why We Are Joining the March on Harrisburg
by Frances Moore Lappé, Adam Eichen
A vibrant pro-democracy movement is on the march
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Everything Wrong with Charter Schools on Display in New Orleans
by Bill Quigley
Major challenges of ctiy’s charter schools exposed at recent NAACP Hearing
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Trump’s AP Interview: Unhinged, Bombastic, and “[Unintelligible]”
by Nadia Prupis
President sits down with Associated Press to rail against the media, dismiss his 100-day threshold, and discuss his broken pledges
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American Dream in Freefall: It’s This Bad
by Andrea Germanos
‘Declines in absolute mobility have been a systematic, widespread phenomenon throughout the United States since 1940,’ the authors of the new study write
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‘Major Setback’ for Justice as Supreme Court Rejects Torture Report Lawsuit
by Nadia Prupis
“The full report is the definitive account of one of the darkest chapters in our nation’s history, and the public has a right to see it,” said ACLU’s Hina Shamsi
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Planet Breaches 410 ppm as Back-to-Back Protests Demand Trump Wake Up
by Lauren McCauley
Bridging March for Science with Peoples Climate March, week of action will focus on creating a just transition from fossil fuels
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