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“I don't think you can understand Trump's relationship to his voters and how he gets away with what he gets away with, without understanding the pact between a lifestyle brand and its consumer base and how that really transformed the global economy in the 1990s.”

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But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.

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It doesn't have the ability to think rationally this economic model. It thinks like a drug addict: 'Where can I get my next fix?'…

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Fury is an entirely appropriate response to a system that sends young people to kill other young people in a war that never should…

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Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to…

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We live in a society that is powered by fossil fuels, but for the meantime, we're in it. Maybe there's, like, five people living…

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I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.

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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

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“It is a civilizational wake-up call. A powerful message—spoken in the language of fires, floods, droughts, and extinctions—telling us that we need an entirely…

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“You have been negotiating all my life.” So said Canadian college student Anjali Appadurai, as she stared down the assembled government negotiators at the…

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