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Declining Cost of Renewables Will Challenge Trump's Promise to Bring Back Jobs Through Coal

America First Energy Plan is replacing the former administration's Clean Power Plan, whose benefits outweighed costs and would not have been a challenge on growth, says Yale professor Kenneth Gillingham.

January 26, 2017
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In First TV Interview, President Trump Says Torture "Absolutely" Works

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During his first televised interview as president, Donald Trump openly embraced torture and waterboarding. "I have spoken, as recently as 24 hours ago, with people at the highest level of…

January 26, 2017
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Dark Shadows: Iran-Contra, Secret Wars & Covert Operations, Part 2

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Thirty years ago, the Iran-Contra Scandal exposed and connected two of the many sets of secret actions of the Reagan years. The congressional, judicial and media responses to that crisis…

January 26, 2017
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Invoking God, Trump Calls for International War Against ISIS - Is Iraq Next?

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Paul Jay and Col. Lawrence Wilkerson discuss the potential foreign policy of the new administration in light of President Trump's suggestion that the U.S. might re-invade Iraq and take the…

January 25, 2017
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The Only Clear Priority in Mnuchin's Record is Wealth Maximization

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Economist Douglass Cliggott says Trump's appointments from the financial service industry have not made clear what their priorities are on basic policy questions.

January 25, 2017
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Without Industrial Policy, Trump Can't Revive U.S. Manufacturing

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Trump will nonetheless try to look tough on China to appease his supporters, says economist John Weeks.

January 25, 2017
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