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Five Things Your Tax Dollars Could Fund Instead of an Illegal Iran War
While Americans are struggling to afford basic necessities, the Trump Administration is pouring billions of dollars into an illegal war in Iran.
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Neue Beweise: Trumps „blindes Vertrauen“ ist eine Täuschung
Das Versprechen von Präsident Trump, sein weit verzweigtes Geschäftsimperium in einen Blind Trust zu überführen, um sicherzustellen, dass seine persönlichen finanziellen Interessen niemals mit seiner Verpflichtung, dem öffentlichen Interesse zu dienen, in Konflikt geraten, entpuppt sich als Fake News. Und zwar als große.
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For Jared and Ivanka, White House Jobs Mean Tougher Conflict Restrictions
The president is exempt from federal conflict of interest laws but his daughter and son-in-law must play by the rules.
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Gorsuch Nomination Moves Toward Historic Confrontation
Supreme Court appointments reverberate across the decades. But Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's choice for the Supreme Court, is likely to have a major impact even before he takes the bench.
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Abkommen mit Bahrain wirft Fragen zu Trumps Konflikten auf
Präsident Trumps Versprechen einer „America First“-Politik hat den Ton der amerikanischen Politik verändert. Doch die Taten des Präsidenten werfen die Frage auf, ob „America First“ einen Fokus auf US-Interessen oder auf die Interessen von Präsident Trump selbst bedeutet.
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Another Red Flag on the Internet Privacy Bill
A column in today’s Washington Post by Paul Ohm, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center and faculty director of the Georgetown Center on Privacy and Technology raises more red flags on congressional action this week that would permit internet service providers (ISPs) sell information about the browsing habits of their customers.
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Big Money’s Hidden Role in Defeating Trump-Ryan Health Bill
While progressive grassroots activists rallied Democrats and some moderate Republicans to vote no on President Trump’s and Speaker Ryan’s American Health Care Act (AHCA) last week, a shadowy network of political advocacy groups headed by Charles and David Koch likely dealt the bill its death blow.
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Blue Is the New Black
Most Americans are familiar with the grainy images of our nation’s Civil Rights struggles. But behind the pictures of Rosa Parks on the bus and lunch counter sit-ins was something more profound than a seat on a bus or at a restaurant.
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Devin Nunes’ Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes is having a tough time of it. His mishandling of the committee’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election has triggered calls for him to surrender leadership of that probe – and even to give up his chairmanship entirely.
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Big Telecom and Big Cable Score Another Big Win
Ever notice that when you go shopping online, ads for whatever you were shopping for show up in your Facebook and Twitter feeds and on other web pages you visit? Action in Congress on Tuesday dramatically increased the likelihood that you’ll soon be seeing even more such ads.
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„Eine Perversion dessen, was das Internet eigentlich sein sollte“
Der Kongress hat in Sachen Datenschutz im Internet den großen Telekommunikations- und Kabelkonzernen nachgegeben. Wenn der heute verabschiedete Gesetzentwurf vom Präsidenten unterzeichnet wird, haben Breitbandanbieter freie Hand, Benutzerdaten an den Meistbietenden zu verkaufen – ohne die Verbraucher jemals zu informieren.“
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Arizona Pushes Plan for Constitutional Chaos
Thanks to the Arizona legislature, we’re getting perilously close to a constitutional disaster. Copper State lawmakers this week made Arizona the 29th state to call for a new constitutional convention to pass an amendment requiring the federal budget to be balanced.
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Nunes Fiasco Strengthens Case for Independent Probe of Russia-Trump Connections
The case for an independent commission to investigate Russia’s interference in last year’s election, perhaps including “wise men” (and women) like Colin Powell, Sandra Day O’Connor, George Mitchell, and Jimmy Carter, plus a special prosecutor, is getting stronger by the hour.
