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“While everyone is focused on security and civil liberties, Trump's Cabinet of billionaires will try to quietly push through even more extreme measures to enrich themselves and their class, like dismantling Social Security or auctioning off major pieces of government for profit.”

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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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As I explored Trump's inextricable relationship with his commercial brand, and its implications for the future of politics, I began to see why so…

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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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I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an…

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Using a broad brushstroke, I think Libertarian - most of America are socially accepting and fiscally responsible. I'm in that category. I think, broadly…

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As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of…

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It is aspiring tyrants who say that 'civil liberties end when an attack on our safety begins.' Conversely, leaders who wish to preserve the…

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Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.

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For the hundreds of thousands of Californians in gay and lesbian households who are managing their day-to-day lives, this decision affirms the full legal…

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“It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but only express…

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Critics have stepped up their attacks on the President for authorizing the National Security Agency to listen to international communications of known al Qaeda…

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I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union.

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George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from…

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I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other…

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