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Will We Stop Trump Before It’s Too Late?
Fascism poses a more serious threat now than at any time since the end of World War II.
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'Sabotage' of Democracy as Trump Adds Citizenship Question to 2020 Census
"This administration is now using the census as a weapon against immigrants."
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Make America Grate Again: Why The Trump Tax Cuts Are Bad for Democracy
What they really do is inflate the national debt while concentrating wealth and political power into fewer and fewer hands.
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Koch Document Reveals Laundry List of Policy Victories Extracted from the Trump Administration
“This year, thanks in part to research and outreach efforts across institutions, we have seen progress on many regulatory priorities this Network has championed for years,” the Koch brothers' memo notes, detailing victory after victory.
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Surveillance in the Age of Trump: What Does FISA Reauthorization Mean for Our Privacy?
An amendment proposed by the House of Representatives would have added new privacy measures to section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that shored up the rights of U.S. citizens. Unfortunately that didn't happen.
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Trump’s ‘Marching Orders’ to the Pentagon: Plan a Grand Military Parade
Shows of military strength are not typical in the United States — and they don’t come cheap. The cost of shipping Abrams tanks and high-tech hardware to Washington could run in the millions, and military officials said it was unclear how they would pay for it.
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Far-Right Trump Backers Biggest Purveyors of Sensationalist, Low-Quality News: Oxford Study
Right-wingers' consumption of "junk news" is harmful to democracy, researchers find.
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"Nobody Wants You": Trump’s Cancelled U.K. Visit Highlights the Power of Protestors
When news emerged last month that Donald Trump was cancelling his February stop in London, much of the country erupted in elation as campaigners hailed the president’s U-turn from Britain a “huge victory for our movement.”
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Blackwater and the Corporate Mercenaries Who've Changed the Rules of War
The UN asserts that mercenarism is against international humanitarian law, but this hardly seems to matter. By exploiting legal loopholes along with some creative lawyering, the modern mercenary now operates with impunity.
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Richest 1% Captured 82% of Wealth Created Last Year – While Poorest Half of the World Got Nothing
A new Oxfam analysis shows that one new billionaire was created every other day in 2017.