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Facebook Wants to Be Better About Privacy, Just Not With These 1.5 Billion Users

As Workers See Crumbs, Biggest Wall Street Banks Have Already Pocketed $2.5 Billion From Trump Tax Scam

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"This bill was always a scam on the American people."

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Taking Aim at Corporate Impunity, Sanders' Bill Would Send Big Pharma Execs Behind Opioid Crisis to Jail

Julia Conley, staff writer

"At a time when local, state and federal governments are spending many billions of dollars a year dealing with the impact of the opioid epidemic, we must hold the pharmaceutical companies and executives that created the crisis accountable," said Sanders in a statement.

"We know that pharmaceutical companies lied about the addictive impacts of...

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Ahead of Tax Day, John Oliver Details 'Long and Infuriatingly Proud History' of Corporate Tax-Dodging

Jon Queally, staff writer

Citing last year's massive tax giveaway to the rich and corporations, which...

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New Analysis of GOP Tax Scam Shows "Corporate Cheapskates" Not Sharing Windfall With Workers

With 'Merger From Hell' Reportedly Approved by DOJ, Warnings of Agrichemical Chokehold on Food System

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Opposing 'Extremely Dangerous' Merger, Ad Campaign to Target Sinclair on... Sinclair

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Shell Knew, Too: New Docs Show Oil Giant's Scientists Secretly Warned About Climate Threat Decades Ago

To Defend Policy of 'Must-Run' Commentaries, Sinclair Forces Stations to Use 'Must-Run' Commentary by Former Trump Aide

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After Trump Sides With Sinclair, Local Newsroom Staff Speak Out Against Right-Wing Broadcaster

Trying to Gut His Own Agency, Mulvaney Asks Congress to Diminish CFPB Powers

'Stuff of Nightmares': Viral Video Shows Sinclair Forcing Local TV Anchors to Recite Trumpian Propaganda

'Among Stupidest Policies Yet Proposed': EPA to Lower Car Emissions Standards

Warnings of Koch Brothers Influence After Shulkin Says VA Privatization Advocates Forced Him Out

Longtime Users Discover 'Horrifying' Reach of Facebook's Data Mining

Six Infuriating Statistics (With GIFs to Match) Help Explain Recklessness of Wall Street Bonus Culture

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On Hillary, Lloyd, Us and Them

For those puzzled by the rancor and mistrust so many feel for Hillary Clinton, a lucid Matt Taibbi looks at Clinton's $675,000 speeches to Goldman Sachs to reveal they're about not just money but allegiance. Turns out Clinton declared that "banker-bashing (was) foolish," it takes a village to get out of a financial crisis (in fact caused by a few greedy oligarchs), and public anger is something "we" - oligarchs and Clintons - need to wait out.

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Friends of the Earth

DOJ Approves Bayer-Monsanto Mega Merger Despite Significant Concerns from Farmers, Consumers, Environmentalists

Patriotic Millionaires

Patriotic Millionaires Applaud Baldwin Bill to Restrict Stock Buybacks

Public Citizen

NIH Officials May Have Violated Policy by Soliciting Donations From Alcohol Industry for Alcohol Study

National Iranian-American Council

Apple's Shut Down for Iranians is Disturbing Trend U.S. Government Must Reverse...

Senator Elizabeth Warren

On Tenth Anniversary of Financial Crisis, Warren Unveils Comprehensive Legislation to Hold Wall Street Executives Criminally Accountable

Americans for Tax Fairness

Trump to Promote His Tax Plan at Boeing, Company has Rewarded Shareholders -- Not Workers

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Josh Bivens, Hunter Blair

For Tax Day, a Reminder That Economic Arguments for the GOP Tax Plan Have No Theoretical Basis

Jeff Cohen

Do U.S. Oligarchs Exist? Not in Mainstream Media

Ralph Nader

Degrading Newspapers’ Business Sections

Aaron Weiss

Confessions of a Former Sinclair News Director

Chris Hedges

The Oligarchs’ ‘Guaranteed Basic Income’ Scam

Chris Hedges

'The Gig Economy' Is the New Term for Serfdom

Pat LaMarche

Is That a White House Advisor in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Helping Him Fleece Me

Charles P. Pierce

Nothing to See Here, Just Freedom

David Korten

Tariffs Aren’t a Terrible Idea—If They’re About Well-Being of People Not Corporations

Richard Eskow

There’s Fake News on Your Television, Too

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