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News For Refusing to 'Ignore or Accept Racial Discrimination,' Amnesty International Honors Colin Kaepernick With Highest Award "When high profile people choose to take a stand for human rights, it emboldens many others in their struggles against injustice." Read more |
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Views Can Trump Fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller? Yes. But the costs would be tremendous. Read more |
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Views Trump Times Two What in the world are we witnessing? Read more |
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News Fear Not, Says Trump, Personal Lawyer Michael Cohen Won't "Flip" President lashes out after story suggests his high-profile attorney may not be as loyal as many have assumed Read more |
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News Challenging Cuomo From Left, Cynthia Nixon Gets Big Applause for Going Huge on Climate "We must transition from an economy based in toxic carbon emissions toward an economy that protects workers, our communities, and our planet," said Nixon. "It won’t be easy. But we don't have a choice." Read more |
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News 'Trump Agenda Is Dead,' Declares Sanders, If Democrats Do What It Takes To Win in 2018 While noting the possibility of a wave big enough to take back the House, Senate, or both, Sanders openly worries about the party clinging to its "tendency to believe that more conservative candidates are better positioned to win." Read more |
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Views Students as Debt Slaves It is time for a system that turns students into indentured servants to go Read more |
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Views The DNC’S Lawsuit Against WikiLeaks Poses a Serious Threat to Press Freedom The theory of the suit would mean that any media outlet that publishes misappropriated documents or emails (exactly what media outlets quite often do) could be sued by the entity or person about which they are reporting Read more |
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News CIA Operative Gina Haspel Who Tortured, Ordered CIA Torture Tapes Destroyed, and Now Wants To Lead CIA Did Nothing Wrong, Says CIA "Torture was illegal and immoral after 9/11, and it still is now," warn critics. And Gina Haspel "should never be allowed to work for the American people again." Read more |
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News Democrat Heitkamp Backing War Hawk Pompeo Because Trump 'Entitled to His Own Cabinet' A day after becoming first Democrat to say she would vote to confirm hawkish CIA director to be Trump's next secretary of state, Senator from North Dakota stumbled to explain why Pompeo's troubling record on torture and NSA spying would not dissuade her. Then quickly walked away. Read more |