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"Big Food” Tries To Look Good

Alicia Kennedy The Bittman Project
If the top-heavy, ultra-consolidated food industry decides to offer us a few organic options, is that really a good thing? Most people do their food shopping solely at supermarkets or grocery stores where they find only those options that big food corporations allow them. Today the top five food retail companies account for about half of the market.

Biden’s Last-Minute Gift to Corporate Lawbreakers

Helen Santoro, Freddy Brewster Freddy Brewster The Lever
A new Justice Department policy update says that even repeat corporate offenders can avoid prosecution if they “make good faith efforts” to come clean.

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Donald, You’re No Teddy Roosevelt

Mike Konopacki The Cap Times
Since the shooting at Donald Trump's rally in Pennsylvania, pundits have gone from branding it "unprecedented" (which it's not) to comparing it to other incidents of political violence that have plagued our nation.

The Real ‘Deep State’

Franklin Foer The Atlantic
Lobbying firms have disguised their influence so well that it’s often barely visible even to savvy Washington insiders.
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