The Intercept points to a Roosevelt Institute study on money in politics that ends with the following conclusion: "Substantial numbers of legislators sell out the public interest in exchange for political money." In other news, water is wet.
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America’s Misadventures in the Middle East
"U.S. wars in the Middle East are—without exception—wars of choice. These wars have proven ruinously expensive and injurious to the civil liberties of Americans. They have poisoned American political culture with various manifestations of xenophobia. Islamophobia has transitioned naturally to anti-Semitism and other forms of racism and bigotry. In the region itself, American military interventions … Continue reading America’s Misadventures in the Middle East
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