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We Need A Housing Revolution Now
Here’s an experiment: If you’re not downtown as you read this, go there now and find some homeless people. They probably won’t be hard to find. Now, look at their faces.If you can’t get downtown, look...
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Mnuchin Flips Tax-Scam Grift, Hopes Nobody Notices
With a little-noticed remark at a friendly event, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin discarded his past arguments for the Trump/GOP tax bill. All Mnuchin could offer in their place was one of the oldest...
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Real Corruption: The Scott Pruitt Story
Question: Which of these scandals should result in EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s removal from office?read more
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Real Corruption: Mick 'Pay And We’ll Talk' Mulvaney
It’s not just that Mick Mulvaney has no scruples; he has no shame.It has become commonplace to see Trump administration officials, up to and including the president, abuse public resources for personal...
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How Trump And The GOP’s SCOTUS Screw Workers
Many have observed, correctly, that the Supreme Court’s recent 5 to 4 decision upholding forced arbitration for employees is a “devastating blow” to the rights of working people. This decision by the...
View Article50 Years After 1968, Can Young Voters Change Politics? A New Poll Says Yes
Fifty years ago, in the dust and fire of global youth activism, everything seemed possible. The political world was a cloud filled with chaos and opportunity, pain and promise. The young were a...
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The Next Recession Could Be Catastrophic
Perhaps the most condescending and unintentionally revealing comments any banker made in the wake of the banker-created 2008 financial crisis came from Jamie Dimon, CEO of too-big-to-fail bank JP...
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'Empathy' Is Not Enough For Immigrant Children
There’s no “civil” way to say it: The Trump administration is torturing immigrant children. A liberal television personality wept openly for these children a few days ago, and I’m glad she did.But it’s...
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Trump's 'Amazing' Economy Is A Big Republican Lie
Donald Trump has been bragging about the economy a lot lately. He says the United States is now the “economic envy” of the world. Unfortunately, Trump is once again trying to reshape reality to fit his...
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Pandering To Deficit Hawks Is A Losing Strategy
The House Democratic leadership’s obsession with asserting a “centrist” – that is, fiscally conservative – fiscal ideology threatens to put the party at odds with its base. It endangers the party’s...
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