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Green New Deal XXI: The Rich Are Killing Our Planet. Make Super-Wealth History
We need to reverse policies that make the super-rich even richer, and create a narrative to challenge their wealth and devastating power, which are inextricably linked.
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Capitalism's Conclusion, Part I: What the Ohio Train Derailment Exposed
The Norfolk Southern derailment of trains carrying carcinogenic chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio, revealed what happens when the philosophy of putting profit above public health infects not just corporate boards, but the decision-making processes of government officials and regulators.
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'More Training' Is Not the Answer to Police Terror
Tyre Nichols wasn’t killed because police weren’t trained enough. He was killed because police training in the U.S. is fundamentally broken at the systemic level. To stop police terror, the national conversation now needs to evolve from “more training” to a fundamentally deeper form of accountability.
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The National Debt Doesn't Matter, and It Can Go Unpaid Forever
Americans’ finances could be personally affected if elected officials put our earned benefits like Social Security on the chopping block, all just to undertake a simple accounting maneuver.
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The GOP Speaker Battle May Have Been a Dry Run for the Next January 6th
Republicans are more fractured and divided than they have been in recent memory—and the trend of appeasing a toxic minority of representatives could prove dangerous, not just for the business of governing but for democracy itself.
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Who's to Blame for the New GOP House Majority, Part III: The Supreme Court
SCOTUS played a role in cementing Republican control of the House of Representatives through at least January of 2025. The decision in Moore v. Harper could extend the damage.
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Who's to Blame for the New GOP House Majority, Part II: Racial Gerrymandering
This is Part 2 of an exclusively Occupy.com series analyzing the 2022 midterm elections.
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Who's to Blame for the New GOP House Majority, Part I: Andrew Cuomo
Credit for what House Republicans do between 2023 and 2024 should go partially to New York’s disgraced former governor, who appointed conservative judges that helped flip New York’s congressional seats red.
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The Threat of Republican Fascism, Part V: Preparing for a Wave of Mass Political Violence
Politically driven violence is not only spreading unchecked across the United States, but is being enabled by national institutions – namely, the courts and the media.
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Green New Deal XX: A Just Green Future Needs Universal Basic Income
From California to Kenya, and from Finland to Canada and India, trials with Universal Basic Income are having immediate positive effects. Here’s why UBI is an economic solution.
