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  • Why Trump's Trade War Will Impact the Marijuana Industry Too

    Phillip Smith / Independent Media Institute

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 08/16/2018 - 14:11

  • Trump’s Attack on Regulations Is Just Another Form of Trickle-Down Economics – Where the Gains Go To the Top

    Robert Reich / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 08/16/2018 - 02:25

  • The GOP Tax Scam Has Already Been A 'Bonanza' for CEOs — But Workers Are Expected to Wait 'Years' to See the Benefits Trickle Down

    Alex Henderson / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 08/15/2018 - 15:50

  • Paul Krugman Explains Why Support for Socialism Is Growing in the United States

    Cody Fenwick / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 08/15/2018 - 12:40

  • How Turkey’s Crisis Might Fracture NATO

    Marshall Auerback / Independent Media Institute  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 08/15/2018 - 12:22

  • Millions of Pounds of Imported Beef Are Mislabeled 'Product of the USA'

    Ronnie Cummins / Independent Media Institute  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 08/14/2018 - 23:30

  • Sarah Sanders' Brazenly False Attempt to Say Trump Isn't Racist Just Backfired Spectacularly

    Matthew Chapman / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 08/14/2018 - 18:35

  • Is It Time to Break up Amazon?

    Angelo Young / Salon

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 08/14/2018 - 07:52

  • An Economist Explains Why Trump's GDP Numbers Aren't Impressive — And Make the Rich Even Richer

    Chris Sosa / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Mon, 08/13/2018 - 09:45

  • Here's Why the Social Security Debate is Replete with Revisionist History

    Nancy Altman / Independent Media Institute

    Displayed Publishing Date: Mon, 08/13/2018 - 08:51

  • Trump Expert David Cay Johnston: Here's How Soybeans Explain What’s Really Going On With the President's Trade War

    David Cay Johnston / DC Report  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Mon, 08/13/2018 - 08:06

  • The End Really Is Near: Here's a Play-By-Play of the Coming Economic Collapse as Predicted by 5 Economists

    Max Cea / Salon  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Mon, 08/13/2018 - 05:55

  • 'Fiscally Disastrous': Conservative Writer Destroys the Pretense that Republicans Care About Being Financially Responsible

    Cody Fenwick / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 08/10/2018 - 10:43

  • Buried in the Fine Print, Trump Rule Would Give $2.5 Billion Tax Cut to Big Bank Fat Cats

    Jake Johnson / Common Dreams  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 08/10/2018 - 04:43

  • American Boatbuilders Are the Latest Casualty in Trump's Trade War

    Hunter / Daily Kos

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 08/09/2018 - 14:43

  • Conservative Writer Slams Trump for Hiring Droves of 'Rich Grifters' — Despite Promise to Pick the 'Best' People

    Cody Fenwick / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 08/09/2018 - 12:21

  • Here's Why Trump Should Stop Bragging About America's GDP

    The Conversation

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 08/07/2018 - 07:24

  • 'Tariffs Feed the Swamp': Wall Street Journal Issues Scathing Editorial Against Trump's Latest Recipe for 'Crony Capitalism and Corruption'

    Cody Fenwick / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Mon, 08/06/2018 - 17:49

  • Ex-Wall Street Banker Sounds the Alarm: Ten Years After the Financial Crisis, 'We're Going to End Up In the Same Situation'

    Elizabeth Preza / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Sun, 08/05/2018 - 18:46

  • Generation Wealth: Will America Ever Cure Its Obsession With Bling, and Celebrity and Narcissism?

    Robert Scheer / Truthdig  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Sat, 08/04/2018 - 01:37

  • Universal Basic Income Is a No-Brainer

    The Conversation  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Sat, 08/04/2018 - 01:08

  • Do Fair Trade Labels Actually Mean Anything?

    Valerie Vande Panne / Independent Media Institute

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 08/03/2018 - 14:50

  • 'He’s Scamming His Supporters': Paul Krugman Calls the Media 'Complicit' in Trump's Biggest Lie

    Cody Fenwick / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 08/03/2018 - 09:50

  • 'What an Ass': New Emails Reveal Federal Employees Fumed About Trump After He Seemed to Violate Disclosure Rule

    Cody Fenwick / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 08/02/2018 - 14:41

  • Boots Riley Takes on the Nightmare of American Capitalism

    Vijay Prashad / Independent Media Institute  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 08/02/2018 - 11:31

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      Richard Miller / History News Network

      Displayed Publishing Date: Mon, 08/20/2018 - 07:34

    2. Scientists Identify a Key Cognitive Error that Could Explain Why People Believe in Creationism and Conspiracy Theories

      Cody Fenwick / AlterNet

      Displayed Publishing Date: Mon, 08/20/2018 - 17:42

    3. Scholar Warns We Could Be Headed for a 'Violent Conflict' Between Republicans and Democrats

      Chauncey DeVega / Salon

      Displayed Publishing Date: Mon, 08/20/2018 - 05:39

    4. Ex-Fox News Analyst Lt. Col. Ralph Peters Shreds Former Colleagues: ‘Prostitutes’ And ‘Henchmen’ for Trump

      Elizabeth Preza / AlterNet

      Displayed Publishing Date: Sun, 08/19/2018 - 09:53

    5. Clarence Thomas' Wife Ginni Posts Far-Right Meme Mocking 'Radicalized' Parkland Shooting Survivors

      David Badash / The New Civil Rights Movement

      Displayed Publishing Date: Mon, 08/20/2018 - 09:16

    6. Rick Santorum Tries to Mansplain Why Mueller Should Target Hillary Clinton to Three Women — And Flames Out Spectacularly

      David Edwards / Raw Story

      Displayed Publishing Date: Sun, 08/19/2018 - 08:27

    7. CNN's Jake Tapper Finally Admits His Fact-Check of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders' 'Medicare-for-All' Claim Was Not Factual

      Jake Johnson / Common Dreams

      Displayed Publishing Date: Mon, 08/20/2018 - 09:47

    8. Jerry Falwell Jr. Warns 'Never Trumpers' Are 'In for a Rude Awakening'

      Chris Sosa / AlterNet

      Displayed Publishing Date: Mon, 08/20/2018 - 07:44

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      Displayed Publishing Date: Mon, 08/20/2018 - 08:48

    10. Ex-Prosecutor Details Why Manafort Jury is Taking So Long to Reach a Verdict — And It’s Not Good for Him

      Travis Gettys / Raw Story

      Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 08/21/2018 - 07:52

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