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After Public Outrage, House Republicans Suspend Efforts to Gut Ethics Office

Due to enormous public backlash, U.S. House Republican leaders today walked back an overreaching amendment passed behind closed doors that would have stripped the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) of…

January 4, 2017
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Alongside Sanders, New York Governor Announces First-in-Nation Free Tuition Plan

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'Our job is to encourage every person in this country to get all of the education they can, not to punish them for getting that education,' Sanders says in New…

January 3, 2017
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"Dreadful Year" of Attacks in Turkey Capped by 39 Dead in Istanbul Nightclub Attack

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Police in Turkey have launched a series of raids across Istanbul as they search for a man who opened fire inside a nightclub during a New Year’s celebration, killing 39…

January 3, 2017
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Craig Holman: Trump Administration Gearing Up to Be "Most Scandal-Ridden in History"

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On the campaign trail, Donald Trump refused to disclose his taxes, and now Public Citizen’s Craig Holman says the Trump administration is a scandal in waiting because of the vast…

January 3, 2017
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Without Warning or Public Input, House Republicans Vote to Dismantle Ethics Oversight Office

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A new Republican-led Congress meets today, and in one of their first moves, House Republicans have voted to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics, dismantling reforms adopted after a previous…

January 3, 2017
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Urgent Need For Legally Binding Obligations On Transnational Corporations (2/2)

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Closing thoughts in our conversation on the need to bring some balance between the the rights and responsibilities of transnational corporations at the international level with Ecuador's Ambassador Espinosa, Chair…

January 3, 2017
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After Public Outrage, House Republicans Suspend Efforts to Gut Ethics Office

Alongside Sanders, New York Governor Announces First-in-Nation Free Tuition Plan

"Dreadful Year" of Attacks in Turkey Capped by 39 Dead in Istanbul Nightclub Attack

Craig Holman: Trump Administration Gearing Up to Be "Most Scandal-Ridden in History"

Without Warning or Public Input, House Republicans Vote to Dismantle Ethics Oversight Office

Urgent Need For Legally Binding Obligations On Transnational Corporations (2/2)

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?