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The Democratic Party brain trust is floating new ideas on taxes. Their economics are questionable and their politics are worse.

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On an island that is reeling, the stakes for schools are high. Gov. Ricardo Roselló has announced that he aims to shutter more than 300 schools amid expectations that enrollment will plunge 10 percent in the coming school year.

Trump has often said he would govern for the benefit of the middle class. But he blurted out the truth about which interests he actually represents when he told friends at his $200,00-a-year Mar-a-Lago club, “You all just got a lot richer.”

The memo actually confirms that the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign started in July 2016, began before the disputed FISA applications against Carter Page.

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For the first time Gar Alperovitz reveals the crucial role he and a small band of others played in helping Daniel Ellsberg leak the documents.

Angela Davis’s feminism was born through Marxism, and through theory and collective struggles as well. These two steps opened the road for a feminism that includes poor and black women, standing out against mainstream white, bourgeois feminism. It is not even possible to speak of a white feminism anymore, not only in the USA, but also in Europe. Europe is no longer a white continent.

US bases are wreaking havoc to the health and well-being of communities across the world. The United States has approximately 800 formal military bases in 80 countries, a number that could exceed 1,000 if you count troops stationed at embassies and missions and so-called “lily-pond” bases, with some 138,000 soldiers stationed around the globe.