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How Does Money Laundering Work?

June 16, 2017

Money laundering "cleans" money of its criminal origins. But how does it actually work?

What's in the GOP's Mysterious Health Care Bill?

June 16, 2017

The Senate GOP keeps its plan to repeal and replace Obamacare shrouded in secrecy

Lynching in America: “Uprooted” Trailer

June 16, 2017

When their grandmother died, Luz Myles, Phoebe Dedman, and Shirah Dedman found a box of old articles revealing a shocking story at the center of their family tree: their grandfather was lynched in Louisiana in 1912.

Australian Prime Minister Does Donald Trump Impression

June 16, 2017

In new leaked audio from what was supposed to be an off-the-record dinner, Australian Prime Minister Turnbull roasts the American president.

June 16, 2017

Mueller Is Following the Money

Mark Sumner Daily Kos

There is an increasing sense of desperation in the White House, which is related directly to the fact that Mueller is looking into things that start with a dollar sign.

June 16, 2017

In New York City, Fast-Food Workers May Soon Have a Permanent Voice

Justin Miller The American Prospect

With the help of a new municipal law, a new advocacy group seeks to become an organizing model for low-wage workers.

June 16, 2017

“This Is Red Alert”: Inside the Left's Game Plan for Beating the GOP Health Bill

Jeff Stein Vox

“We want these staffers to feel as if they’re under siege from the rest of America, from a country that hates this bill.”

June 16, 2017

Chinese Satellite Breaks a Quantum Physics Record, Beams Entangled Photons From Space to Earth

Deborah Netburn Los Angeles Times

Distributing entangled photons over large distances could eventually be used to establish unhackable communications via what’s known as quantum cryptography.

June 16, 2017

War Alphabet

Jill McDonough Poetry Daily

What is war? Jill McDonough’s alphabetical poem evolves from World War I’s soldier-oriented them vs. us to the hidden terrors of today’s warfare: CIA, NSA, Black Ops, ETC.

June 15, 2017

Trump Turns Back on a Future with Cuba

Jesse Jackson Chicago Sun-Times

In his perverse fixation on overturning all things Barack Obama, President Donald Trump now turns his attention to Cuba, the island located 90 miles off our shore. Reports are that the president plans to travel to Florida to announce that he will reverse Obama’s opening to Cuba, reinstate restrictions on the right of U.S. citizens to travel to Cuba and curtail business opportunities that Obama had opened up by executive order.