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‘It’s the Secret Sauce’: Experts stress the importance of foreign workers

Skilled foreign workers need an H-1B visa to work in the U.S., and now that the Trump administration has placed…

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Former FTC commissioner fired by Trump speaks out

Last week, the Supreme Court let President Trump’s firing stand for a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, pending…

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‘How you get a real autocracy’: New memo lays groundwork for next phase of Trump’s crackdown

Donald Trump recently signed a new presidential memo that the White House says aims to counter domestic terrorism. But legal…

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How the Supreme Court’s ‘shadow docket’ keeps the public – and other judges – in the dark 

President Trump has submitted a record number of emergency cases to the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket,” persuading it to overturn…

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Matt Stoller: Media concentration *is* authoritarianism—where a handful of giants control discourse

ABC’s temporary pre-emption of Jimmy Kimmel’s show is a symptom of a systemic crisis that allows a shrinking pool of…

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The Jimmy Kimmel affair showed how media giants can gerrymander the airwaves

A look at how decades of media consolidation set the stage for the censorship of Jimmy Kimmel and public pushback…

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Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘The God of Small of Things’ by Arundhati Roy

Author Arundhati Roy joins the Velshi Banned Book Club to discuss her Booker Prize-winning novel “The God of Small Things,”…

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The New Resistance: Young Democratic mayoral candidates fighting for change in the Trump Era

The Democratic party has been struggling to mount a unified defense against the Trump administration. Author and scholar Bill McKibben…

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Beyond Trump’s carriage ride: Britain’s cautionary tale for the U.S.

Donald Trump’s visit to Britain this week came with royal pageantry, but the cautionary tale is what’s outside the palace…