The filmmaker and activist calls the president’s upcoming visit to the beleaguered Michigan town “too little too late.”
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The “Democracy Now!” host explains why pundits are getting coverage “so wrong” and outlines what needs to change.
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By Deirdre Fulton / Common Dreams —
“The people in every state in this country should have the right to determine who they want as president and what the agenda of the Democratic Party should be.”
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By Eric Ortiz — The humor and video site provides an overview of the presidential election process and shows why candidates can’t be honest.
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Watching the seemingly endless series of Republican debates this election season, one might wonder why so many candidates hung in there well past the point when it was clear they had no real chance of winning. Well, wonder no more.
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Despite spending a record-breaking $12 million of his own money to win a House seat, Trone lost Tuesday’s primary race.
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By Nika Knight / Common Dreams —
In 2008, a Michigan environmental official told lead test technicians to “bump out” sky-high lead results by collecting more clean water samples.
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The Young Turks report that supporters of Hillary Clinton recently took down of a number of Facebook pages devoted to her opponent, Bernie Sanders.
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And more than two-thirds of U.S. voters want to change the process by which the political parties choose their presidential nominees, a poll by Reuters/Ipsos finds.
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Just 42 percent of Americans between ages 18 and 29 support the economic system with which the United States itself is often equated, Harvard researchers found.
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“It’s as if the people of the Soviet Union had never heard of communism,” observes British writer George Monbiot.
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By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch —
Donald Trump is the first presidential candidate to run openly and without apology on a platform of American decline.
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By Tim Radford / Climate News Network —
The rapidly growing human population can feed itself without worsening climate change by destroying the planet’s forests, researchers say.
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It’s really a wonder more cities haven’t tried “Housing First,” which evolved from a New York City program begun decades ago.
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The “Full Frontal” host takes pity on the Republican presidential candidates who haven’t understood that Donald Trump is destroying them.
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By Juan Cole — Prince Muhammad Bin Salman, 30, the deputy crown prince of Saudi Arabia, laid out his vision for Saudi Arabia on Monday in a plan called “Vision 2030.”
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By Heather Vogell / ProPublica —
The government questions whether the Judge Rotenberg Center has been straight with families about the risks of its electrical shock devices and alternative treatments.
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By Juan Cole — Bernie Sanders has already justified his run by having pushed Clinton substantially to the left on key issues. Here are just a few.
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By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet —
Bernie Sanders won only Rhode Island in Tuesday’s five presidential primary elections, and a handful of progressives running for Congress also had disappointing nights.
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Global warming has already progressed farther than many are willing to admit, and that’s exactly why it’s time for the industrialized world to acknowledge the ethical consequences.
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