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Bringing Down America’s Happiest Christian Cult
For decades, the freewheeling hippies of Jesus People USA —“God’s forever family” — forged one of the most influential movements in Christianity. They were also Jaime Prater’s family, until he made a documentary exposing the commune’s darkest secrets. By Jesse Hyde.
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The Death and Life of Atlantic City
Inside the multibillion-dollar casino that was supposed to turn things around. By Nick Paumgarten.
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Looting Made Easy: the $2 Trillion Buyback Binge
Corporations are taking the retirement savings of elderly public employees and using them to inflate their stock prices so wealthy CEOs and their shareholders can enrich themselves at the expense of their companies.
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CEOs Call for Wage Increases for Workers! What's the Catch?
Their concern is not driven by moral outrage at the injustice of it all, but by self-interest.
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The Frightening Power of the Home-Schooling Lobby
Thanks to a small but fierce group, home schooling is barely regulated in much of the U.S. That means child neglect—and even abuse—is falling through the cracks.
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Estimating the Return on Investment of Corporate Lobbying
In an earlier post we discussed the lumpy difference between the nominal (40%) and effective (average 16%) corporate tax rates in the US. That effective tax rate is driven by many things, including subsidies, deductions, offshore accounts, and other drivers. A reader suggested we look into how much money that 24% gap is worth and how that might incentivize corporations in their lobbying efforts in Washington.
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What If We Reported On Poverty The Way We Report On The Stock Market?
“The media is biased,” is a complaint that media organizations receive a lot, so they tend to be fairly wary of overtly partisan reporting. However, while media organizations are loath to seem partisan, they are often deeply unaware of other deep biases they hold.
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Corporate Welfare In California
Corporate welfare is often camouflaged in taxes that seem neutral on their face but give windfalls to big entrenched corporations at the expense of average people and small businesses. Take a look at commercial property taxes in California, for example.
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Election 2016: Jeb Bush Got $1.3M Job At Lehman After Florida Shifted Pension Cash To Bank
As governor, Jeb Bush forged a relationship with Lehman Brothers that proved disastrous for Florida's pension fund - but it was quite lucrative for him.
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Anti-Government Protests Sweep Brazil
Brazilians took to the streets of cities and towns across the country Sunday for anti-government protests seen as a barometer of discontent with the increasingly unpopular President Dilma Rousseff. Called mostly by activist groups via social media, Sunday's demonstrations assailed Rousseff, who is fighting for her political life amid a snowballing corruption scandal that has embroiled politicians from her Workers' Party, as well as a sputtering economy, spiraling currency and rising inflation.
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Mafia milks Italy’s green energy boom
Thousands of solar panels glint in the sun, but the prized farmland beneath lies barren.
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Republican hopefuls reap $62m in support from donors with fossil fuel ties
Republican presidential candidates have banked millions of dollars in donations from a small number of mega-rich individuals and corporations with close ties to the fossil fuel industries that stand to lose the most from the fight against climate change.
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These Six Rebel Psychologists Just Won A Long War Against Torture
On Friday morning, amid emotional scenes, the APA’s governing Council of Representatives overwhelmingly backed the dissidents’ proposal to ban psychologists from taking part in national security interrogations.
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These guys want to gut America: 6 ways the GOP has obliterated American opportunity—and how we can start fighting back
Despite their supposed diversity, GOP candidates share a dependence on two broad-spectrum lies: First, that they’re better at producing overall growth — for example: Trump boasting, “I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created,” or Bush promising “4 percent growth as far as the eye can see” — and, second, that growth by itself will benefit everyone.
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Malaysia in turmoil as PM focuses on survival
Najib Razak's response to corruption allegations has been a crackdown on investigators and his critics on both sides of politics. Malaysians are left wondering where their nation is headed.
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Why Did Chris Christie Say He Was Appointed U.S. Attorney The Day Before 9/11 When He Wasn’t?
For years, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) has been claiming he was appointed to a federal prosecutor job the day before the 9/11 attacks. He wasn't.
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US fossil fuel lobby outspent green groups 22 times to blunt Obama climate plan
There could be half a billion reasons for the concessions US President Barack Obama's clean-power plan made to a defiant energy industry.
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Could Scott Walker’s Legal Victory Expand PAC Superpowers?
Proponents of tighter reins on political money worry that a Wisconsin ruling about the governor's recall campaign could carry seeds of another ‘Citizens United.’ By Robert Faturechi.
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Montco DA charges [Pennsylvania] Attorney General Kathleen Kane
Charged in a criminal indictment Thursday, Attorney General Kathleen Kane remained defiant vowing to hold onto her office, even as others, including Pennsylvania's governor, called upon her to resign.
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Despite Epic Crash of World Economy, White Collar Prosecutions at 20-Year Low
Despite lofty rhetoric from politicians who vowed in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis to hold Wall Street accountable, U.S. Justice Department statistics show a "long-term collapse" of federal white collar crime prosecutions, which are down to their lowest level in 20 years, according to a new report from Syracuse University.
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