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Response by Many Republicans and Right-Wing Media to Virginia Shooter Strongly Underscores Their White Supremacist, Misogynist Values By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet Most gun owners in America are white Republicans. Most victims are women and non-whites. READ MORE» 6 Signs Trump’s Legislative Agenda Is Dead By Jefferson Morley, AlterNet From infrastructure to tax cuts to the Pentagon, the president can't get things done. READ MORE» Godzilla Amazon: The Amount of Power in Jeff Bezos' Hands Should Frighten All Americans By Matt Stoller, The Huffington Post Amazon very effectively uses technology and data to sidestep traditional restrictions on monopoly power. READ MORE»

Neil deGrasse Tyson Narrates New Doc 'Food Evolution': A Blatant Case of Monsanto Corporate Propaganda By Stacy Malkan, AlterNet With its skewed presentation of science, the documentary is a flagrant example of propaganda for the agrichemical industry. READ MORE» Anti-Racist Author Tim Wise: White America Desperately Wants to Be Numb, and Donald Trump 'Is a Walking, Talking Opioid' By Chauncey DeVega, Salon Author of "Dear White America" says Donald Trump is a painkiller for white people's anguish—but it won't work. READ MORE» The Summer of Love Had the Right Idea: Tear Down Those Walls So We Can Be Together By Ira Chernus, TomDispatch Both hippies and activists challenged the pervasive nation that national security was paramount. READ MORE» Impeach Trump and You’d Get ‘Zealot’ Pence, Franken Says By David Sirota, International Business Times In terms of domestic policy, Pence "certainly would be worse than Trump.” READ MORE» Research Shows That Assistance to the Poor Is Negatively Skewed to Race and Location By Celisa Calacal, AlterNet More holes in the safety net if Trump's budget cuts are enacted. READ MORE» 5 Major Threats to Further Hasten Uber's Decline By Alexandra Rosenmann, AlterNet Multimillion-dollar lawsuits top the list of legal woes. READ MORE» Lead Poisoning, a Persistent Sign of Poverty, Is Linked to School Suspensions and Lower Student Test Scores By Rachel M. Cohen, The American Prospect New evidence that kids with higher exposure to lead are more likely to misbehave in school and do worse academically. READ MORE» The Great American Fallout: How Small Towns Came to Resent Cities By Katherine J. Cramer, The Guardian It’s no secret Donald Trump benefited from rural voters. But Democrat or Republican, they usually tell Katherine Cramer the same thing: it’s the cities that get all the breaks, and then have the gall to look down on them, too. READ MORE» Jeff Sessions Is Misleading Congress to Advance His Inhumane War on Medical Marijuana By Bonnie Kristian, Rare The attorney general conflates therapeutic cannabis with the opioid epidemic and attempts to tie it to a potential long-term uptick in violent crime.  READ MORE» Jay Sekulow's Bizarre Debut: Donald Trump Picked a Lawyer He Saw on Fox News and It Isn't Going Well By Heather Digby Parton, Salon Why is a Christian crusader with little relevant experience suddenly acting as Trump's defense lawyer? Look closer. READ MORE» Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro: What Republicans Get Wrong About the Social Safety Net By Rosa L. DeLauro, The New Press Connecticut Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro argues that today's critics of the welfare state completely miss its core values. READ MORE»