Listen to this story below: On a blistering afternoon in the courtyard of the East Las Vegas Community Center, former Vice President Joe Biden steps to the lectern. With white hair and aviator glasses, he looks like he wandered off the set of an Invisible Man remake. “How’s he going …
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange today sits in the Belmarsh High Security prison in southeast London. Not just for his sake but for everyone’s, we now have to hope he’s never moved from there to America. Related: Everything Julian Assange Is Accused of, Explained The United States filed charges against Assange …
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President Trump has claimed repeatedly that China pays for the tariffs he has imposed on hundreds of billions of dollars of goods the U.S. imports from its overseas adversary. This is not true. American companies and consumers are directly footing the bill for the taxes, which are only getting worse …
Read More »Civil Rights Icon John Lewis on the Art of Making 'Good Trouble'
Congressman John Lewis’ Washington, D.C., office is filled from floor to ceiling with photographs and souvenirs from a lifetime of activism: the Freedom Rides he risked his life for from the age of 21; the March on Washington, where Lewis wrote a speech so fiery that Martin Luther King Jr. …
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