By Andrea Germanos / Common Dreams —
A new report reveals that public financing by the world’s wealthiest governments belies their nations’ stated commitments to Paris climate goals.
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By Foster Klug and Hyung-Jin Kim / Associated Press —
Analysts say Kim’s government believes nuclear weapons are key to its own survival and could be used to wrest concessions from the United States.
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By Celisa Calacal / AlterNet —
Data indicates law enforcement officials have killed nearly 500 people this year alone.
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By Topher Sanders / ProPublica —
Former state Sen. Dale Schultz laments his support for tighter voter rules and reconfiguring districts and says he’s happy the Supreme Court will weigh partisan gerrymandering.
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By Robert Reich / RobertReich.org —
Maybe the president’s most recent attacks on the press were meant to distract from a week of embarrassing news. I fear a more menacing reality.
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Listen to Bruce Springsteen read his new foreword for the 40th anniversary edition of Ron Kovic’s “Born on the Fourth of July,” and hear the first chapter of the classic memoir.
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By Gareth Porter / Consortium News —
Cyber-criminal efforts to hack into U.S. government databases are epidemic, and this ugly reality is being exploited to foist blame on the Kremlin and fuel hysteria.
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By Catherine Lucey, Associated Press —
The president expresses frustration with North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, which have become one of his most vexing international problems.
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By Danny Sjursen / TomDispatch —
With Donald Trump’s generals considering renewed action, a U.S. Army strategist recalls his time in Afghanistan in 2011.
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By Henry Giroux —
In a U.K. commencement speech, the author urges grads to “confront the poisonous authoritarianism that is emerging in many countries today.” (Pictured, an anti-Trump march in London.)
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By Joe Lauria —
Between April 2013 and March 2015, she gave 91 paid speeches averaging $235,000 apiece, for a total of $21,648,000. This excerpt from “How I Lost” spotlights three of those talks.
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By Norman Solomon — At a time of increasing tensions, what’s at stake in the dynamics between the nuclear superpowers’ presidents is no less than the fate of the planet.
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By Sam Husseini / FAIR —
The integrity of the news process requires a more searching response than just CNN’s retraction of a Trump-Russia article and the resignation of three journalists. (Pictured, “Deep Throat” as depicted in “All the President’s Men.”)
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By Bill Blum — We can appreciate the full import of Gorsuch’s position on the Supreme Court only by analyzing his written orders and decisions.
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