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March 26, 2019

Opinion: Mueller Didn’t Exonerate Trump of Obstruction of Justice

The Mueller report is finally done. On March 23, Special Counsel Robert Mueller sent the confidential report of his 22-month investigation to Attorney General William Barr. Less than 48 hours later, Barr released a four-page letter outlining Mueller’s conclusions and jumping to one as well. In response to Barr’s letter, Donald Trump …

March 22, 2019

Marjorie Cohn: Daniel Ellsberg Calls Chelsea Manning “an American Hero”

BERLIN, GERMANY – MAY 02: Whistle blower and activist Chelsea Manning, in what she said is her first strip outside of the United States since she was released from a U.S. prison, speaks at the annual re:publica conferences on their opening day on May 2, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. Re:publica …

March 17, 2019

BULLETIN BOARD: PHOENIX ARIZONA “BABE COUNCIL” WEEKEND PLANS

For those of you DailyClout community members who live in the Phoenix, AZ area, please check out the amazing Babe Council! This is how DailyClout loves to see grassroots activism—community-driven, but creative, cutting-edge and even fun. We’ve learned that if civic action is always heavy, people burn out, so we …

March 16, 2019

Robespierre with Lipstick

Here is a simple question: If slavery is a 100% tax on one’s labor, what do you call a 70% tax? Such is the level of taxation envisioned by a young, idealistic freshman Congresswoman, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. How does this Congresswoman and her fellow travelers arrive at this number?  How does Sen. Elizabeth …

March 11, 2019

The Ever-Growing Gap in Income and Wealth

Since the publication of my book Survival of the Richest in July 2017, the bleak numbers I documented in terms of disparity of wealth have only grown worse. A recent paper from the Economic Policy Institute found that the top 1 percent of American families made an astounding 26.3 times …

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