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Bernie Sanders: There Should Be No Billionaires
Senator Bernie Sanders introduces his latest ambitious plan to tackle wealth and income inequality.
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DeVos Threatens to Cut Funding for Middle Eastern Studies Programs for ‘Portraying Islam Too Positively’
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos called on University of North Carolina and Duke University to amend the curriculum of their joint Middle Eastern studies program, claiming it does not include enough positive material about religions other than Islam.
Millions Strike for Green New Deal in Largest Youth-Led Demonstration in History
Sunrise’s Varshini Prakash: “We’re putting the establishment on notice.”
Long Before Epstein: Sex Traffickers & Spy Agencies
Elizabeth Vos reviews the unsavory history of intelligence agencies providing protection to child sex-trafficking rings.
Prison Guard Drives Truck Into Crowd of Peaceful Anti-ICE Protesters (VIDEO)
On Wednesday night, immigration activists gathered at the Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to protest the private facility’s working relationship with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The coalition Read More…
Third Way Democrats Are Bought and Sold by The Kochs
When George Soros and Charles Koch announced in July that they are partnering to create a think tank dedicated to ending the United States’ forever wars, Steven Kinzer of The Read More…
Border Patrol Arrest Reports Are Full of Lies That Can Sabotage Asylum Claims
On December 29, 2017, the night his daughter was born, Augusto left the hospital and rode his motorcycle to his home in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, to pick up a change of Read More…
The Unraveling of the Conspiracy Case Against No More Deaths Volunteer Scott Warren
The federal courthouse in Tucson, Arizona, has always been a place where the borderlands and the American justice system collide. Described by its engineers as “a gateway to the desert Read More…
ROBERT PARRY: More Second Amendment Madness
Robert Parry, the late founder of Consortium News, exposed in this Jan. 2013 article the dangerous & false idea that the Constitution Framers wrote the 2nd Amendment so an armed population could fight the government the Framers had just created.
Iowa, Nevada to Launch Caucus Voting By Phone for 2020
Democrats in the early presidential contest states of Iowa and Nevada will be able to cast their votes over the telephone instead of showing up.
Kamala Harris Is No Progressive Prosecutor
The freshman Senator and former Attorney General from California has shown herself to be opportunistic and politically calculating, easily adopting whatever focus group-driven stance or policy will help her reach her career ambitions,
Water Sites in 43 States Contaminated with Toxic Chemicals
A new report published May 6 by the non-profit Environmental Working Group and Northeastern University finds people in nearly every state in the country are exposed to unhealthy drinking water.
Bernie Sanders, AOC to Introduce Resolution Calling ‘Existential Threat’ of the Climate Crisis an ‘Emergency’
A cohort of progressive Democrats plan to introduce a resolution declaring a climate emergency Tuesday in Congress, a move that could open the door to decisive action on the crisis.
CBO Report Shows Broad Benefits From $15 Federal Minimum Wage
New analysis by the Congressional Budget Office finds that $15 in 2025 could raise the wages of 27.3 million low-wage workers and would increase the income of families who earn below three times the poverty rate by $21.9 billion.
This Is The Longest Period Without A Federal Minimum Wage Increase Since Law Enacted in 1938
Congress set a record this month: It’s now been nearly 10 years since lawmakers have raised the federal minimum wage, marking the longest period in history that it’s remained stagnant.