Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
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The Corbyn Effect: Britain’s Election Just Rewrote the Rules of Parliamentary Politics
Jeremy Corbyn's win demonstrated that in the stale world of parliamentary politics, we need to tear up the rulebook. We need to be realistic about the systemic crises we face. And we need, above all, to demand the impossible.
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Confronting The Emerging Neo-Fascist Capitalism, Part I
Potential breaking points include the looming climate crisis, the overexploitation of resources, systemic problems within the financial system, and endemic, increasing inequality.
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The Average Black Family Would Need 228 Years to Build the Wealth of a White Family Today
Just as past public policies created the racial wealth gap, current policy widens it.
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Introducing The Next System Project
It's time to face the depth of the systemic crisis – to explore genuine alternatives and new models, and to debate what it will take to move our country to a very different place.
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12 Days of Christmas Apologies
The super-greedy refuse to apologize and make amends for their treatment of less fortunate Americans. Are visions of an Occupy II Movement dancing in their heads?
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America Keeps People Poor On Purpose
How four decades of lobbying and legislation gave corporations dominion over our economy—and eroded the American middle class.
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Britain's Five Richest Families Worth More than the Poorest 20%
An Oxfam report reveals the scale of inequality in the U.K., as charity appeals to chancellor over tax.
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British Law Is Failing As Student Protesters Demand End to Austerity
Incorporated with the coalition government’s pro-business austerity agenda, the right to protest has faced severe cuts in Britain.
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NYC's Income Inequality Gap: "Extraordinary" And Growing
"It's edgy out there," Mayor de Blasio told a group of people who associate "edgy" with booking a business class international flight with Bonus Miles alone.
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The Year of the Great Redistribution – When Wealth Went Upwards
“Trickle-down” economics turned out to be trickle up in 2013, as the stock market ended at an all-time high and gave stockholders their biggest annual gain in decades, as wealth transferred from some of the rich to others of the rich.
