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Angela Davis: ‘Democratic Party Is Just as Linked to the Corporate Capitalist Structure as the Republican Party’
Previously on The Root, we reported on scholar and freedom fighter Angela Davis' recent comments about the 2016 presidential election and the ensuing social media controversy that followed. ...[Read more]
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Sanders campaign slams Clinton-DNC fundraising agreement
Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign on Monday accused Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign of possibly violating campaign finance laws through its joint fundraising agreement with the Democratic National Committee. Brad Deuts ...[Read more]
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Elizabeth Warren: Democratic Party Primary was Rigged
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) says she agrees with Donna Brazile's claim that the Democratic primary was rigged against Bernie Sanders by Hillary ...[Read more]
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Donna Brazile Confesses that DNC Rigged Primaries
On November 2, Donna Brazile published an excerpt from her upcoming book, “Hacks,” in Politico. In the passage, Brazile outlines how she first discovered the joint fundraising agreement between Hillary Clinton's campaign and the DNC that created the H ...[Read more]
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Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC
I would get to the bottom of whether Hillary Clinton’s team had rigged the nomination process, as a cache of emails stolen by Russian hackers and posted online had suggested. I’d had my suspicions from the moment I walked in the door of the DNC a mont ...[Read more]
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Politicians from both right and left could learn from the Nordic countries
The four main Nordics—Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland—are doing rather well. If you had to be reborn anywhere in the world as a person with average talents and income, you would want to be a Viking. The Nordics cluster at the top of league tables ...[Read more]
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Multiple fatalities reported in shooting near World Trade Center
At least two people are feared dead and five injured following a mass casualty incident in downtown Manhattan Tuesday afternoon. New York police confirmed that one suspect is in custody. Mayor Bill de Blasio assured New Yorkers that there is currently ...[Read more]
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Ronald Reagan and The Great Social Security Heist
With the help of Alan Greenspan, Reagan pulled off one of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated against the American people. It is so ironic that many people, today, still believe that Ronald Reagan came galloping up on a great white horse to sound the ...[Read more]
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Top Trump Pollster: No Question Bernie Sanders Would Have Won
At a Harvard University Institute of Politics event on Monday, Tony Fabrizio—the chief pollster of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign—argued there is "no question" that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) would have defeated Trump in the general electi ...[Read more]
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Bernie Sanders backs millionaire tax to fix New York subway
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's fight for a "millionaires' tax" to help repair the country's largest subway system got a boost as U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, one of the nation's most popular politicians, endorsed the plan on Monday. “What the mayo ...[Read more]
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Medicare for All isn’t just about expanding health coverage. It’s about expanding freedom
In US landscape, enacting a single-payer system would be one of the most liberating policy advances the US has seen in decades. While other types of incremental health reforms (including Obamacare) claim to move toward universality and affordability, only ...[Read more]
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