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Facebook: The Grim Reaper (of Data)

Undertaker of democracy and innovation.

Collusion with corporations has always been hiding in plain sight. It takes real people to fight that — not an elite prosecutor.

He tweets odes to America’s small farmers, but his actions are tearing them apart.

For most of us, when we rate how we’re doing in our jobs, we don’t say, “Nobody can prove I committed a crime!”

I’m a registered nurse from rural Iowa. In communities like mine, privatized care is an extractive industry — and it’s drying up.

We’ve “grown the pie” massively since the 1980s, but it hasn’t resulted in ordinary Americans getting a bigger slice.

Wealthy families have rigged college admissions for generations, but they want you to blame affirmative action.

Illnesses and injury shouldn’t bankrupt workers or their employers. Let’s pool resources to protect all of us.

Too often we get sticker shock at the cost of public policies, even when they’d actually save us money.

Paper receipts generate enormous amounts of waste each year — and hardly anyone needs them.