By E.J. Dionne Jr. — The writer Leon Wieseltier suggested a slogan that embodies the appropriate response to Trump’s ascent to the top of the GOP class: “Preserve the shock.”
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In a piece published by The Intercept, the ex-CIA employee and NSA subcontractor reflects on the risky but necessary act of revealing information not intended to be publicly known.
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By Andrea Germanos / Common Dreams —
“The only reason why they effected this so-called bailout of Greece was to save their own banks and to present this as solidarity with Greece.”
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Clinton says she’s raising big money to help state committees, but they’ve gotten to keep only one percent of the $61 million raised, a Politico investigation found.
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The Virginia senator called on an audience of business and political elites to respond to active public discontent by lobbying harder for the reduction of corporate taxes and the cutting of public welfare programs such as Social Security.
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By Tim Radford / Climate News Network —
Researchers create a detailed “cyberforests” picture of the dramatic ways that climate change could alter the types of trees in the forests of Canada and the U.S.
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In two court decisions in less than three months, Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay out $127 million. And it faces 1,200 similar lawsuits.
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By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan —
Daniel J. Berrigan lived his life true to his calling, literally practicing what he preached.
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A recently created “superdelegate list” urges voters to “hold party officials accountable.” But would that help or hurt the Sanders campaign for the Democratic nomination?
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By Alexander Reed Kelly — On the other hand, I have two-and-a-half decades worth of reasons to fear a new Clinton administration.
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By Bill Moyers —
A talk with the scholar and Princeton professor about the tremendous racial inequalities that remain as the final term of America’s first black president draws to a close.
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By Nadia Prupis / Common Dreams —
“At a time when we are seeing attacks on the most vulnerable members of our community, Chicago is taking steps to protect and affirm transgender people.”
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By Elizabeth Preza / AlterNet —
They argue that the Democratic front-runner is a better choice for president than Donald Trump.
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Amid the recent hubbub about the TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership), it’s easy to lose sight of that other international trade deal with two Ts and a P in its abbreviation that’s caused a worldwide backlash in recent months.
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By Lauren McCauley / Common Dreams —
Arguing that the real estate mogul would be a dangerous choice to lead the U.S., the Massachusetts senator is making her plea to voters and lawmakers across the political spectrum.
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The new political party aims to create a voting bloc of outside voices to propel the Vermont senator into the White House.
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According to the environmental organization, leaked documents from negotiations for the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP—an international trade deal—reveal a legal program that would exchange national sovereignty for rule by corporations.
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By all indications, Donald Trump has the Republican presidential nomination sewn up.
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Get a glimpse of the two-woman operation behind “Rising Up With Sonali,” the daily radio and television show hosted by Truthdig columnist Sonali Kolhatkar and broadcast online and on KPFK.
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By Ellen Brown / Web of Debt —
Despite North Dakota’s collapsing oil market, its state-owned bank continues to report record profits. With 50 times North Dakota’s population, California could do the same.
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