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Jessica Corbett, staff writer
A new study that highlights the serious impacts of wealth inequality in the United Kingdom and United States suggests that being rich can add about nine "healthy" years to a person's life.
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
2019 was also the second warmest year on record, and the past five years were the five warmest on record.
Abaki Beck
A firefighter sprays foam retardant on a back burn ahead of a fire front in the New South Wales town of Jerrawangala on Jan. 1, 2020. (Photo: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images)
Julia Conley, staff writer
As some online supporters of Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders appeared intent on escalating a disagreement between the two 2020 Democratic presidential candidates over a private conversation they had in 2018, Rep. Ilhan Omar urged progressive voters to resist allowing themselves against one another as the first primary votes draw near.
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Across the political spectrum, there is near consensus among these economists that a single-payer system would save money."
Jill Richardson
Feeding our kids shouldn’t fall only to kind strangers and acts of charity. (Photo: Shutterstock)
Julia Conley, staff writer
At the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, one CEO of a Utah-based hospital system admitted Tuesday that the U.S. healthcare industry is responsible for American families' financial struggles.
Ruth Conniff
We are so accustomed to a lone voice-in-the-wilderness candidate who tries to stake out progressive positions only to be condescendingly ushered offstage by the sensibly centrist popular kids, this moment in history snuck up on us. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The Congressional Progressive Caucus said the two bills are "our best chance to avoid future conflict."
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Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Bernie Sanders is the champion our community needs and is helping to lead the movement that will help us defeat Trump in 2020."
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Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"This is not what democracy looks like. This is the world Citizens United made," Alan Zibel, research director of Public Citizen's Corporate Presidency Project, said Wednesday as his group released a pair of reports.
Ben Lilliston
At factory farms, thousands of animals are raised in confined spaces, producing a massive amount of waste stored in manure lagoons. (Photo: KARIM JAAFAR/AFP via Getty Images)
Cari Hernandez
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) chats with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) alongside billionaire-philanthropist Tom Steyer during a break of the seventh Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season co-hosted by CNN and the Des Moines Register at the Drake University campus in Des Moines, Iowa on January 14, 2020. (Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)
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Ari Paul
According to the CNN report, merely posting a photo of the general could get the Facebook authorities to take a post down. (Photo: Coda/Screenshot)
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Critics of the corporate media as well as supporters and staffers of Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign blasted the moderators of the CNN/Des Moines Register Democratic presidential debate Tuesday night for employing centrist talking points and demonstrating a bias against Sanders in how they framed questions.
Jessica J. González
These bills could expand our understanding of sexism and racism in the media, and chip away at some of the barriers that have frozen out women and people of color from owning news outlets and shaping coverage. (Photo: Screenshot / Fox News)
