Trump’s Quiet Meeting with Saudi Arabia and Israel Portends a Dangerous Collision Course with Iran
An under-the radar gathering at the White House exposes troubling new drifts in U.S. foreign policy.
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Trump, Terrorism, and the Politics of Witch Hunts
It’s ironic that the most powerful man on earth would protest that he’s the subject of a “witch hunt,” especially given his enthusiasm for bombing and torturing people.
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The Pay Gaps Between Executives and Median-Salary Workers is Outrageous
No CEO Should Earn 1,000 Times More Than a Regular Employee
Employees of at least five U.S. corporations would have to work more than a millennium to catch up with their CEO.
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Billionaires Won’t Save the World — Just Look at Elon Musk
The “playboy genius” is essentially squandering taxpayer money on pet projects like Mars trips and flamethrowers.
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Black Panther Disembarks From The Roles Black Actors Have Traditionally Been Pigeonholed Into
The evolution of Black roles in film, from Mammy to T’Challa.
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With Tillerson Out, Trump’s Bringing Foreign Policy Deeper Into the Dark Side
Trump, who started out his administration with radical outsiders, is now bringing in a new wave of competent extremists.
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How Those Trump-Kim Talks Might Go: A Transcript
Trump’s “art of the deal” is about to get its most high-profile test yet. The early prognosis is not good.
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Business Leaders Agree: Inequality Hurts The Bottom Line
A growing number of corporate leaders say it’s time for them to start sharing the wealth.
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Teachers Deserve a Raise. Here’s How to Fund It.
Huge tax cuts for energy corporations have left state school budgets broke.
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If We Want to Support Refugees, We Need To End the Wars That Create Them
The sanctuary movement needs an anti-war voice.
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West Virginia’s Teachers Score a Win
The teacher’s strike holds a lesson for other states: slashing taxes is no excuse for underfunding education.
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A Media Mogul’s Noble Challenge to Moguldom
The newspaper publishing giant E.W. Scripps would be deeply distressed to see what has become of his namesake company – and beloved country.
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Del Monte’s Pay Ratio is Largest to Date at 1,465:1
Corporate disclosures show astoundingly significant gaps between CEO and median-worker pay among Fortune 500 firms.
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Zimbabwe Open for Business, Code for International Finance Capitalism
Zimbabwe’s new president offered an open invitation to international capital investment and latecomers for Zimbabwe’s trek down the neoliberal development road.
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How Gary Cohn and Andrew Mellon Both Failed America
Mellon’s failure greased the nation’s way into a decade of Great Depression. Will Cohn’s tax-cuts do the same?
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The New, New Cold War
The Cold War has been around, in various permutations, for a long time. It will take patience, organizing, compromises, and some luck to bury it once and for all.
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The Far-Right Effort to Win Hearts and Minds Across the Atlantic
Far more dangerous than the far-right effort to win elections alone is its concentrated campaign to change the culture – a strategy it owes, perversely, to the left.
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8 Trailblazing Women Leading the Fight Against Inequality
In honor of International Women’s Day, we’re highlighting eight fearless women leading some of today’s biggest and most impactful social movements.
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11 “Small” Banks That Would Benefit from Deregulation Bill Have Huge Pay Gaps of 146 to 1
Supporters of a Senate-approved deregulation bill claim it will provide relief for community banks. But, judging by the size of the beneficiaries’ CEO-worker pay ratios, they are hardly Mom & Pops.
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