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Democratic Party Resistance to Medicare for All Traceable to Campaign Funding

Corbin Trent of JusticeDemocrats.com, whose group is campaigning for Medicare for All bill, explains the group's research and strategy for pushing the Democratic Party to endorse the plan.

June 3, 2017
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Denying Trade Deficit Problem Is Almost Like Climate Change Denial

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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