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Newspaper condemned for ‘chicken-shit’ decision on White House race as staffers say they are ‘deeply concerned’

Dan Osborn is forging a new path through red states with anti-corporate populism and working-class identity politics.

"The Iceland story offers a very different vision to countries across Europe that are grappling with low productivity but trying the same old failed methods," said one researcher.

The principle cause of today’s crisis of homelessness and housing affordability has one, single, primary cause: billionaires treating housing as an investment commodity.

How the younger brother of the famous general set out to destroy the scourge of monopoly power.

Fast-food corporations opposed a California minimum wage increase under the guise of concern for workers, claiming it would result in lost jobs. The bill passed, and the numbers are in: that concern was just scaremongering.

Not everyone rides out storms like Milton or Helene by choice. Some simply cannot afford to flee.

False claims of “migrant crime” echo the Ku Klux Klan’s fear mongering.

Since the end of the Civil War, the United States has found ways to disenfranchise Black voters. It started with literacy tests and poll taxes and threats of racist violence. Now, it’s through voter suppression laws and mass incarceration. 

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