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No matter how hard some politicians and press try to persuade us otherwise, the evidence shows that the banking community is rife with unpunished fraudsters. Its political influence, however, apparently remains undiminished.

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Fracking. You have heard the word before, and Bernie Sanders just announced he plans to ban it, but what does it all mean? Here is your video breakdown.

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Even though New York got much of the attention (they actually scheduled their signing ceremony before California), the California law is much more interesting -- not so much for the statewide aspect, but rather for the way it was enacted.

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Last year, the Canadians showed that rapid refugee processing is possible, resettling more than 25,000 refugees in a three month period. Clearly, it can be done.

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Two opposing movements are being played out in American politics this election year. One movement, Trumps, is led by older folks. The Bernie Sanders movement is being led by young people. I go with the young people every time. I am for Bernie.

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Overall -- in over half a century -- the pay gap has closed by only 20 cents. Women today are paid just 79 cents for every dollar earned by a man and their median annual earnings are $10,800 less per year than men's.

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The artists behind A Face in the Crowd created their masterpiece in 1957. With phenomenally prescient perspective, they imagined the potentially poisonous intersections between mass media, celebrity and political power.

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Hillary Clinton's support for "regime change" in countries such as Iraq, Syria, Libya and Iran has rightly become an issue in the presidential campaign. Honduras should also be included on the list of operations that ruined a country and disgraced the U.S. in the region.

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Muslims, however have become collateral damage in a multitude of ways by either being put directly in harm's way or putting themselves in harm's way as the only means through which to resist state-sanctioned violence.

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Trying to explain The Donald Phenomenon to my kids is a lost cause from the start. It's not that I should teach my kids about him, but that my kids could teach him a thing or two about how to be a good person. Maybe what we need to do is take Donald Trump back to toddler town.

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There's one endorsement that hasn't yet generated the extensive attention it deserves, but should.

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I understand the need to protect our borders. But the stark difference between our policy in Cuba and our policy everywhere else forces me to believe that our policy is driven by old-school politics, inertia, or a simple inability to adapt to a new reality.

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A new wave of activism against student debt is on the move again this week. The students taking the lead represent the advance guard of an even more massive army which is mobilizing around the idea that higher education should be an investment we make as a society.

Perhaps she was doing the usual political exaggeration in order to feel our pain -- the flip side of coming under sniper fire in Bosnia when you weren't -- that sort of thing. Or maybe, she misremembered her actual income. It might have been much lower than she recalled on Tuesday. It certainly must seem like chicken feed if you're accustomed to receiving from Wall Street $250,000 per speech.

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Too many of the top .1 of the one percent, who already have every advantage over everyone else in the world, have become so greedy and so utterly amoral that they are fundamentally eroding our society's democracy, government and sense of morality.

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Sanders' critique of Clinton isn't that she is unqualified or inexperienced. It is far tougher and more substantive. His campaign is premised on the belief that she is too compromised and conservative to be the president we need.