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Denying Trade Deficit Problem Is Almost Like Climate Change Denial

CEPR co-director Dean Baker explains that Trump's attention to the link between trade deficit and loss of manufacturing jobs is legitimate, even though many pundits continue to deny it. However,…

June 1, 2017
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Gerrymandering: Everything You Need to Know in 60 Seconds

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There are several ways the Republican and Democratic Parties manipulate the vote and control elections. They control the narrative, who gets to vote in primary elections, and redraw electoral districts to…

May 31, 2017
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The Intercept: As the U.S. Ramps Up Airstrikes on ISIS, Are Syrian Civilians Paying the Price?

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A civilian monitoring group says U.S.-led airstrikes killed more than 100 civilians—including 47 children—on Thursday and Friday in the ISIS-held town of Al Mayadeen in eastern Syria. This comes as

May 31, 2017
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Amnesty International: Did $1 Billion Worth of Lost U.S. Weapons End Up in the Hands of ISIS?

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A newly declassified Pentagon audit shows the U.S. Army failed to keep track of more than $1 billion worth of weapons and military equipment sent to Iraq and Kuwait, including…

May 31, 2017
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We Are Ripe for Fascism

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In this week’s WhoWhatWhy podcast, Yale history professor Timothy Snyder talks to Jeff Schechtman about what he sees as the very real possibility that our republic will go the

May 31, 2017
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From Libya to Manchester, Western Intervention Endangers Civilians

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Max Blumenthal, Senior Editor for Alternet's Grayzone Project, says the Manchester bombing's ties to NATO intervention in Libya exemplify how Western policies overseas can help lead to attacks at home.

May 30, 2017
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Denying Trade Deficit Problem Is Almost Like Climate Change Denial

Gerrymandering: Everything You Need to Know in 60 Seconds

The Intercept: As the U.S. Ramps Up Airstrikes on ISIS, Are Syrian Civilians Paying the Price?

Amnesty International: Did $1 Billion Worth of Lost U.S. Weapons End Up in the Hands of ISIS?

We Are Ripe for Fascism

From Libya to Manchester, Western Intervention Endangers Civilians

Special Report on Venezuela: U.S. Kidnaps Mad…

Trump Administration Pauses Construction on A…

"Destroying Knowledge": Michael Man…

Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying t…

Environment

Trump Administration Pauses Construction on All Offshore Wind Projects…

"Destroying Knowledge": Michael Mann on Trump's Dismantling of Key Climate…

Kitchen Nightmare: How Plastic in Everyday Objects Leaches into Food…

Overdevelopment and Climate Change Collide in Catastrophic Flood

Justice

The longest-running strike in the US is over—and the…

Extrajudicial killings from Barack Obama to Donald Trump

Trump Orders States Not to Protect Children From Predatory AI

The New COINTELPRO? Meet the Activist the FBI Labeled a…

Media

CBS Censorship: Bari Weiss Pulls "60 Minutes" Exposé on…

The state of the free press in the US is……

Media Ignore Government Influence on Facebook’s Plan to Fight Government…

Democracy in Crisis: The Future of Journalism

Philosophy

Good vs. Evil: A Matter of Conscience

Grades and Test Scores Don’t Matter. A Love of Learning…

Great Quotations on the Mysteries of Time

The Illusionist

Politics

Special Report on Venezuela: U.S. Kidnaps Maduro, Trump Says…

Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use AI…

How Did Epstein Get Rich? The New York Times Investigates…

AI Industry Insiders Living in Fear of What They’re Creating

Science

OpenAI Researcher Quits, Saying Company Is Hiding the Truth

The Future Of Sharing Means You’ll Never Have To Buy…

With GDPR Decision, Zuckerberg Proves Yet Again He Has Learned…

What If We Could Literally Rewrite the Human Genome?