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As The Baltimore Sun wrote, it’s better to have a few rats than to be one.

The economic ascent of China makes both the right and the left nervous for different reasons, often more to do with the U.S. economy’s own insecurities than China itself. Yet the U.S. and China have much in common, including their contradictions

Savannah Guthrie Debate Question: “What do you say to those who worry this kind of significant change could be risky to the economy?”

'Contrary to Bolsonaro's wishes, he is not (yet) a dictator. He has no power to order people arrested,' said Greenwald after the president threatened to incarcerate the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.

The right-wing billionaire has teamed up with unlikely ally George Soros on “military restraint,” but Koch Industries subsidiaries make millions by supplying the Navy with circuitry.

Israel’s spraying “has created a dead zone of entire swathes of formerly arable land.”

Industrial hemp has been proved to absorb more CO2 per hectare than any forest or commercial crop, making it the ideal carbon sink. It can be grown on a wide scale on nutrient-poor soils with very small amounts of water and no fertilizers.

Only one in 7 kids eligible for free summer lunch actually gets one. Low participation likely results from factors including lack of accessible meal distribution locations, inadequate information about free meals, and transportation barriers.

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The NLRB persists in its fight to outlaw Scabby the Rat, the balloon rodent who helps out workers when they picket their bosses.