Some candidates running for president wax poetic about the student debt crisis, but only one of them is willing to pay his interns.
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“If [Bernie Sanders] were elected, I think he’d be the one, from the current candidates ... with the best policies,” the renowned linguist and activist recently told Al-Jazeera in an interview.
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By Juan Cole — In a sign of China’s increasingly powerful role in Central Asia and the Middle East, on Tuesday a Chinese train arrived in Tehran after a 14-day journey.
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By Deirdre Fulton / Common Dreams —
Federal Reserve official Neel Kashkari warns that “we won’t see the next crisis coming, and it won’t look like what we might be expecting.”
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The president’s background in constitutional law is coming in handy this week.
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Hedges and the Green Party presidential candidate explore the problems plaguing American politics, including the essential dysfunction of a two-party system, the staged hypocrisy of the presidential debates and the lack of difference between Republicans and Democrats.
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The former first daughter joined her father in hitting out at her mother’s rival Tuesday, leveling harsh criticism at Bernie Sanders’ proposal to end mass incarceration in the U.S.
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By Peter Van Buren / TomDispatch —
When presidential candidate Bernie Sanders talks about income inequality, and when other candidates speak about the minimum wage and food stamps, what are they really talking about?
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On “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” on Monday night, the comedian recalled a memorable moment he spent with the late Supreme Court justice.
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Despite the belief that Hillary Clinton is a feminist candidate, she doesn’t always practice what she preaches. As a U.S. senator, Clinton paid female staff members 72 cents for every dollar that she paid males, according to The Washington Free Beacon.
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By Juan Cole — George W. Bush came out of political exile on Monday to be his brother Jeb’s surrogate in attacking Donald Trump.
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By Robert Reich — I’m writing to you today to announce the death of the Republican Party. It is no longer a living, vital, animate organization.
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By Juan Cole — Despite the announcement at Munich of a cessation of hostilities in Syria, to be implemented in the next week or so, all the major fighting forces in Syria have announced a determination to soldier on.
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By Eugene Robinson — “Surely this time,” the Republican establishment chorus cries with joy, “Donald Trump has gone too far!” Don’t bet on it.
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By Alexa Sue Amore —
Clinton—who at one time had a big lead in opinion polls but now cultivates an underdog persona—is sending a harmful message about female voters and women in politics. Her defensive, faux-feminist comments imply that women are too weak to participate in meaningful debate, and she has been invoking sexism to avoid talking about the real issues.
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By E.J. Dionne Jr. — Justice Antonin Scalia’s death Saturday means that President Obama or his successor—if that successor is a Democrat—could overturn the current conservative majority on the court, which could lead it to revisit many of the most troubling decisions of recent years.
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As House Budget Committee chairman in the 1990s, Republican presidential candidate and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who has claimed to be a friend of the working poor and a foe of Hillary Clinton, worked with the Clintons to throw Americans off welfare.
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The penguins died in recent years after an iceberg “the size of Rome” became grounded near their Antarctic colony in 2010, separating them from their food source: the sea.
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By Paul Brown / Climate News Network —
Owning a piece of the fossil fuel industry was once like having money in the bank—but not any longer, investors are being warned.
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By E.J. Dionne Jr. — Here’s hoping that alongside the angry campaign to succeed him, President Obama and his budget chief, Shaun Donovan, will make their case for smart government and an approach to social policy that is both compassionate and pragmatic. You can even imagine a catchy slogan for their effort: “Yes, we can.”
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Still riding on the excitement of his New Hampshire primary victory last week, Sanders stopped by the “Late Show” to discuss his movement and get some tips from South Carolina native Colbert on how to win that state.
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By Juan Cole — There is no guarantee that the successor to the late Justice Antonin Scalia will be a liberal. But only if Ted Cruz wins the presidency can we expect a nominee as hard right as Scalia.
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