Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Is the Dying Scream of the Corporate Democratic Party

Sinema’s subservience to big moneyed interests is a holdover from an era of politics that is fading noisily into the past.


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Daniel Boguslaw

Decades of federal investigations looked into Manchin’s inner circle and business associates.

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EcoHealth Alliance Conducted Risky Experiments on MERS Virus in China

Sharon Lerner, Maia Hibbett

Documents released by the NIH contradict previous assertions by EcoHealth Alliance about its experiments on bat coronaviruses in Wuhan.

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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Is the Dying Scream of the Corporate Democratic Party

Ryan Grim

Sinema’s subservience to big moneyed interests is a holdover from an era of politics that is fading noisily into the past.

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AFL-CIO Leadership Tries to Block Affiliate’s Vote on Endorsing BDS

Isaac Scher

AFL-CIO leadership cited a procedural rule to tell the San Francisco Labor Council it couldn’t even debate a resolution on BDS.

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Sen. Joe Manchin Has Been Fighting to Keep Billions in Subsidies for Fossil Fuel Industry

Alleen Brown

Manchin is knocking down every reconciliation effort to address the climate crisis. Next up is $121 billion in subsidies for fossil fuel companies.

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The Psychological Tolls and Moral Hazards of Drone Warfare

Murtaza Hussain

Two new books shed light on what remote warfare does to military operators, the standing of the U.S., and societies abroad.

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ICE Review of Immigrant’s Suicide Finds Falsified Documents, Neglect, and Improper Confinement

José Olivares

An internal review of Efraín Romero de la Rosa’s death in ICE custody found almost two dozen policy violations during his stint in detention.

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Morocco’s Intelligence Apparatus Fuels a Crackdown on Dissent

Cole Stangler, Abdellatif El Hamamouchi

Dozens of Moroccan journalists were listed as potential targets of NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware — just one instrument in the kingdom’s expanding surveillance toolbox.

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Private Prison Companies Pursue Creative Workarounds to Biden Executive Order

Max Rivlin-Nadler

The administration should “enforce its order,” said an ACLU attorney, “or admit that it’s going to let the private prison operators reduce that order to meaningless words on paper.”

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