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Plutocracy

January 1 - Understanding the People Who Vote For Trump; How the Press Helped Elect Donald Trump; Our Plutocratic Future Under Trump

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April 14 - A Compromise Between the White House and the Senate on the Iran Deal?; Blackwater Mercenaries Sentenced as Iraqi Leader Arrives; The Republican Gift to the Uber-Rich and Their Heirs

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November 3 - Why Foreign Fighters Join the Islamic State; Outside Money and Dark Money in Toss-Up Senate Elections; The U.S. Billionaires Political Power Index

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January 28 - "How America Abandoned Egypt's Arab Spring"; "The Rich Don't Always Win," Will They Lose Tonight?; Obama Speaks to a House Divided Against Him that Uses Dog Whistle Coded Racism

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November 4 - "The Voting Wars" Heat up on the Home Stretch; Blue States Subsidize Socialist Red States with Right-wing Welfare; Mormon "Royalty" and Theological Fraud

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October 4 - The Presidential Debate and the Failure of Journalism; Venezuela's Presidential Election; From the Current Gilded Age to the Last

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May 20 - The G8's Conversion From Austerity to Growth; "Land Of Promise: An Economic History of the United States"; Protecting Whistleblowers Who Commit the Truth

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June 26 - The Death of Earth's Oceans; Overpopulation and the Future of the Planet; The New Gilded Age and Rise of the 21st Century U.S. Plutocracy

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