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By 2050 electric vehicles could require huge amounts of lithium for their batteries, causing damaging expansions of mining

Peru’s deepening crisis is a cautionary tale about democracies that fail to deliver for ordinary people.

Wealthy partisans aligned with the GOP are going for that Hispanic vote in a big, big way. They intend to use the same tools that have turned state after state reliably red since the 1980s: radio & TV

In this book, author Hamid writes about what he calls a "democratic dilemma" facing U.S. policymakers, who, he says, "want democracy in theory but do not necessarily want its outcomes in practice.”

Congress hiked the nation’s top-bracket tax rate to around 90% for two decades to see the emergence in the United States of the world’s first mass middle class.

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Peet’s Workers United received assistance from Starbucks Workers United organizers.

The modern Republican Party has always exploited and encouraged extremism.