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Bezos Confronts Pecker, But Is Still a Greedy Di*k

Jeff Bezos deserves props for standing up to blackmail by The National Enquirer’s  publisher, David Pecker, who threatened to print sexually explicit pictures and texts of the Amazon founder if he refused to issue a false statement that The Enquirer doesn’t have a...

Now’s The Time For The Health Care We All Deserve

Deb Rainey and other Monadnock Progressive Alliance members I would love to wake up in the morning and not worry my siblings are having a health crisis. I would like our family to have the peace of mind we all deserve. I have two siblings with debilitating illnesses....

Charters Push Public Schools to the Brink

Photo credit: Fibonacci Blue/flickr/cc When striking Los Angeles teachers won their demand to call for a halt to charter school expansions in California, they set off a domino effect, and now teachers in other large urban districts are making the same...

Clean Energy Is A Human Right

Rev. Tony Pierce and other members of Illinois People's Action speak out at the EPA's "Affordable Clean Energy" hearings in Chicago. Photo credit: People's Action Our planet is being pushed to the brink. Pollution burns our lungs and our children fall sick while those...

America Is Already Socialist, And That's a Good Thing

During Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech, many of the old, white, Republican Senators and Representatives must have gotten more exercise than in weeks, jumping to their feet to applaud almost every sentence of the endless rhetoric. One of the moments that got...

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