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The good news is that six months after Trump’s inauguration and the consolidation of a seamless Republican right-wing regime in Washington, the bottom seems to be finally falling out.…
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The latest poll, by USA Today and Suffolk University, found only 12 percent of Americans support the Republican health care bill. This confirms what other recent polls have shown: the…
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Privatization has gone wild in Florida. Governing the state basically has been turned over to business. The clearest proof is that this year Florida will contract out to business more…
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London's Grenfell Tower is a perfect microcosm, an apt metaphor for a whole “philosophy” that in this country has been gaining predominance for decades, culminating with Donald Trump:…
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The majority of Cubans in Miami no longer support a hardline policy toward Cuba, which is probably why Trump didn’t reinstate the whole Cuba package of the Bush years. But, as long as…
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Numbers make clear the perversity of a policy proposed by the Trump administration that will cripple the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Here's just one example: In 1970,…
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Watching Trump as he rolls out policy after policy, one might conclude he has studied Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century' closely and then done exactly the opposite…
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On his first foreign trip, President Trump was a caricature of himself and his country: the Ugly American on steroids. He is not a deviation in the Republican long march to the right;…
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In Greek mythology, Gaia is the personification of the Earth. Today, Mother Earth Gaia is in big trouble. It has deadly enemies. Greed, first and foremost. That and the fake science…
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Stories in The New York Times and Miami Herald paints a portrait of a thoroughly corporate-controlled society characterized by breathtaking inequality in which cruelty is standard…
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