Journalists have a responsibility to plainly tell the truth about how truly different the Democrats and the Republicans are today, especially with both democracy and the rule of law at stake this November.
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Counting the Dollars the Rich Want Uncounted
Americans are gaining, ever so slowly, a more accurate picture of just how wide the gap has stretched between the nation’s most fabulously privileged and everyone else.
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Royal Troubles: Amid Austerity and Inequality, Ire Is Growing Over Britain's 1% Monarchy
Inheritances of vast wealth and power position the British royals and aristocrats within the global 1%. So why do protests for democracy and equality rarely draw attention to them, focusing anger instead merely on bankers, politicians and corporate fat cats?
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Revealed: How Obama's Ethanol Policy Ravaged the Environment
Corn grown for ethanol has polluted water, destroyed habitats and wiped out 5 million acres of conserved land, proving vastly more damaging to the environment than promised.
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Revealed: Majority of Red-State Americans Now Believe Climate Change is Real
Breaking research reveals 87% of Oklahomans and 84% of Texans accept that climate change is occurring.
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Elizabeth Warren Challenges Obama to Break up Too-Big-to-Fail Banks
Amid speculation that she might run against Hillary Clinton in 2016, firebrand senator attacks regulators for multiple failings.
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BREAKING: Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Text Exposed
The Intellectual Property Rights Chapter published Wednesday by WikiLeaks is perhaps the most controversial chapter of the TPP due to its wide-ranging effects on medicines, publishers, internet services, civil liberties and biological patents.
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After Failed GMO Initiative in Washington, Food Safety Modernization Act Is Next Battle
Unless people participate to support their values, our democracy cannot function.
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Here's what we still don't know about the U.S. drones program
Nearly six months ago, President Obama promised more transparency and tighter policies around targeted killings. How much has changed since then?
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At Warsaw Climate Summit, World Awaits Leaders to Stop Posturing and Start Acting
As the Philippines reels from a massive typhoon that reportedly killed 10,000 people, global climate envoys meeting Monday in Poland will begin two weeks of negotiations to lay the groundwork for a comprehensive climate change pact in 2015.
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Newfoundland Bans Fracking, As First Nations-Led New Brunswick Protests Continue
Western Newfoundland’s shale-oil deposits have been described as potentially vast, but the region includes the Gros Morne National Park, which is a world heritage site and huge tourist attraction.