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Sanders Heads Into Debate With Something To Prove: His Health
Polling indicates voters have significant doubts about whether the Vermont senator is healthy enough to serve as president.
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Bernie Sanders Plans To Give Workers A Stake In Their Corporate Employers
Big companies would have to give 20% of their shares to employees under a new proposal from the Democratic candidate.
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Veteran Congresswoman’s Retirement Could Open Door For Progressive Newcomer
Rep. Nita Lowey, a New York Democrat, already faced a primary challenge from attorney Mondaire Jones.
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'It Was Like A Rallying Cry’: Bernie Sanders Campaign Surges Ahead After Heart Attack
The Vermont senator’s presidential campaign and top supporters say they are buoyed by a wave of support following the 78-year-old’s hospitalization.
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Sanders Says He'd Ban Corporate Money From Democratic Convention, Inauguration
His plan to end the influence of major businesses goes further than that of other 2020 candidates.
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Progressives Are Divided On How To Approach The Impeachment Process
Most activists are satisfied with House Democrats' approach, but some want more.
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Swing-Seat Democrats Avoid Impeachment Backlash So Far
At town halls in swing districts, there’s little evidence of broad anger from constituents.
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Staten Island Democrat Max Rose Endorses Impeachment Inquiry
Rose, who unseated a Republican congressman in a district Donald Trump won, was one of his party's last holdouts.
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Bernie Sanders Rolls Out Plan To Reduce CEO Pay
The Vermont senator would increase taxes on companies where CEOs earn more than 50 times the median worker.
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The DNC Is Sending Organizers To 8 Battleground States
The states, which include Texas, offer insight into the Democratic strategy for unseating President Donald Trump.
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The New Impeachment Consensus Complicates Progressive Primary Challenges
"For a lot of centrist Democrats facing primaries, impeachment gave them a chance to flash their anti-Trump credentials," said one Democratic strategist.
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Elizabeth Warren Protege Katie Porter Waits Out Making A 2020 Endorsement
The California lawmaker counts both Warren and Kamala Harris, her home-state senator, as mentors.
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Bernie World Is Starting To Go After Elizabeth Warren
Bernie Sanders supporters are questioning Warren’s progressive bona fides — and for the first time, the campaign is going along with it.
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Support For Impeachment Surges Among House Democrats
They're still well short of the votes they need, but the ground is suddenly shifting.
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How Germany Beat Greece In Liar's Poker
Greece was not prepared to shoot the proverbial hostage in negotiations with Germany and the other eurozone nations. In fact, the Greek government was not even ready for the possibility of a Grexit if it was forced on them. To understand why Greece’s Syriza-led government had only the Grexit card to play, it is worth explaining how the political dynamics within the eurozone had stacked the negotiations against Greece from the get-go.
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Greek-Americans Share Concern For Greece, But Disagree On Solutions
When Hillary Clinton called on European leaders Tuesday to “exert every effort to find” a solution that keeps Greece in the eurozone, one of the reasons she cited was her domestic constituency. “The United States has a great, active, successful Greek-American community. George Ramakis is a case in point.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn's Surprisingly Prescient Plan For Greece
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the disgraced former managing director of the International Monetary Fund and onetime French presidential hopeful, has a progressive plan for the Greek debt crisis that includes significant debt relief -- a concept the country's creditors appear increasingly willing to accept. The plan, which Strauss-Kahn released on Twitter, would allow Greece to postpone all debt repayments for two years but withhold additional financing for the cash-strapped nation. This would allow Greece more flexibility to recover by keeping cash flowing into its economy, but also keep pressure on its government to continue tightening its budget, Strauss-Kahn argued.
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Let German Comics Explain The Absurdity Of Austerity In Greece
While Germany may be Greece's most fearsome opponent in negotiations over the country's debts, some German comics are sympathetic to the dilemma facing their Mediterranean neighbor. In March, the German TV comedy show "Die Anstalt" (meaning "The Institution") imagined what would happen if Greece's troika of international creditors -- the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Commission -- were just three German guys sitting down in a restaurant in Greece. The Huffington Post's Braden Goyette translated the sketch, and we have shared some choice segments below.
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Debt Relief Could Be Greece's Reward For Standing Up To Europe
The creditors of nations long enforced their claims by the cannons of government and, in some cases, the cannons of companies. While the modern financial services era largely silenced the cannons, the political institutions that replaced them still press creditors' claims ahead of all other obligations a nation might have. Greece has long said it, and since Sunday's referendum, some other European leaders are saying it: Greece needs debt relief.
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This Is What The End Of European Democracy Looks Like
Underlying the question of whether European leaders and the Greek state will be able to come to terms amid the financial crisis is one even more fundamental: Is there room in Europe for democracy? In January, Greek voters elected a government on a platform of anti-austerity, one that argued further cuts would not just be cruel to a people already experiencing 25 percent unemployment, but economically backward as well. European leaders have spent the five months since then doing everything they can to drive that Greek government from power.