Right, so that headline isn’t just a play on President Obama’s own successful campaign buzzwords.
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Although he’s repeatedly named the Bible as his favorite book, let’s just say that Scripture isn’t Trump’s strong point.
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Texas freshman Ahmed Mohamed’s engineering project should have met with high marks and encouragement from his high school’s authorities, but instead the 14-year-old Muslim’s creation, a carefully wired clock housed in a pencil case, landed him in handcuffs earlier this week.
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An Oklahoma appeals court has granted a reprieve for death row inmate Richard Glossip just hours before his scheduled execution. As Truthdig’s Bill Blum recently explained, “His case is the kind that should keep people of good conscience awake at night.”
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The 2016 campaign is proving to be the most expensive yet. Watch to find out where and how candidates are getting their cash.
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The World Wildlife Fund’s findings spell trouble for all nations, especially those in the developing world whose people are heavily dependent on the ocean’s resources.
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A groundbreaking investigation reveals how the company’s top executives were warned of possible catastrophe from global warming in the 1970s, then led efforts to block solutions.
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One of the lessons of Jeremy Corbyn’s election to the head of the British Labour Party is that the “entrenched, institutional power of the Right” can be undone only by combining the passions of disparate social groups in a broad populist movement.
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Schools were closed in Seattle on Wednesday as the city’s first teachers strike in 30 years entered its fifth day. Last week, teachers represented by the Seattle Education Association unanimously voted to strike in demand of fewer standardized tests for students, more time to prepare for classes and better pay.
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By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout —
Calling Donald Trump a fascist is not enough. We need deeper analyses to reveal the seeds of totalitarianism in his discourse and policy measures.
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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
Evidence preserved in tree rings shows that Sierra Nevada snow cover is the lowest in five centuries—and rising temperatures will only make things worse.
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A New Republic piece explains why Republican candidates complaining about immigrants and demanding they be deported have the facts all wrong.
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New York media company NowThis News teamed up with The Huffington Post to release a handy video that explains why anyone crying out “reverse racism” should stop.
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By Robert Reich — On Thursday, right-wing extremists in the U.S. House of Representatives will vote to try to defund Planned Parenthood, one of the nation’s largest providers of women’s health care and family planning services.
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By Juan Cole — Pope Francis is becoming an increasing problem for Republican Catholic presidential contenders because he keeps intervening directly and unambiguously on certain policy issues.
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Donald Trump may be talking tough while aboard vintage battleships these days, but he’s going to need more than macho swagger and vague generalities to keep his lead over other GOP presidential contenders for another year.
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By Valerie Tarico, AlterNet —
Can zombies get married, according to the Bible?
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Well, that was fast. Director Mark Nickelsburg has made mirth out of cultural conflict by spoofing the controversy over Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis’ recent refusal to issue gay marriage licenses.
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There’s a scientific reason you should ignore what your mom taught you and leave your bed unmade every day; a writer ponders whether newly minted Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn can undo what Tony Blair did to the party; meanwhile, a black woman says she was detained in a mental hospital for over a week because cops didn’t believe her BMW belonged to her. These discoveries and more after the jump.
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By Stanley Heller —
A flood of U.S. defense dollars long has supported Saudi Arabia, a hideous human rights abuser. Ending the U.S.-Saudi alliance could bring an enormous peace dividend to Americans.
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In this short clip from a History Channel documentary, the renowned linguist and activist explains how markets actually bring out the worst in humans by turning us into people “dedicated to maximizing individual gain, not social concern.”
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By Juan Cole — According to reports, the Egyptian military mistook a tourist convoy in the western desert near Siwa Oasis for terrorists and attacked them, killing 12 (including eight Mexicans) and wounding 10 others.
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