Politics

WATCH: Want to Expand Voter Rights? Support Ranked Choice Voting

Voter Choice Massachusetts Executive Director Adam Friedman made one thing clear to Massachusetts Democrats: If you support protecting and enhancing voter rights, you should support ranked choice voting.

June 14, 2017
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America's Broken Healthcare System is Creating More Single-Payer Advocates

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The Real News speaks to advocates of universal healthcare and affordable prescription drugs at the 2017 People's Summit.

June 13, 2017
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Classic Who: What They Don’t Tell You About Oil Industry Tax Breaks

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In 1956, sociologist C. Wright Mills wrote in his work The Power Elite, “Tax rates being high, the corporate rich are quite nimble in figuring out ways to get income,…

June 13, 2017
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The Beleaguered Tenants of "Kushnerville": Jared Kushner Accused of Slumlord Practices in Baltimore

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"The Beleaguered Tenants of ‘Kushnerville.’" That’s the headline of a recent piece in ProPublica about the real estate dealings of Trump’s son-in-law and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner. The…

June 12, 2017
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Cholera Death Toll Tops 859 in War-Torn Yemen as U.S.-Backed Saudi Assault Continues

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In Yemen, a civilian is dying nearly every hour from a massive cholera outbreak, as the ongoing U.S.-backed, Saudi-led bombing campaign and naval blockade has devastated the country’s health, sanitation…

June 12, 2017
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Danny Glover on a New Radical Politics

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Danny Glover tells Paul Jay that a new politics includes a fight in the Democratic Party but does not limit itself to that or have illusions about it.

June 11, 2017
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