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A painting of Woody Guthrie is projected onto the Oklahoma Capitol on Feb. 27. (jackfowlerart / Instagram) Woody Guthrie died in 1967, but the spirit of the folk singer is alive and well in the American heartland. On Feb. 27, according to NonDoc, Oklahoma City artist Jack Fowler and technical expert Stephen Tyler projected a giant painting of Guthrie onto a tarpaulin on the side of the Oklahoma state Capitol. Guthrie, who was born in 1912 in Okemah, Okla., was famous for writing “This machine kills fascists” on his guitar. Читать дальше...

By Jesse Eisinger / ProPublica The U.S. attorney newly fired by President Trump has been acclaimed for tackling corruption. But his treatment of Wall Street executives involved in the financial meltdown was far less confrontational.

The activist and the novelist weren’t on stage at the same time, but their separate talks at London’s Women of the World festival still had the effect of a debate.

Departing a bit from the thong metaphor he used to explain Obamacare, the “Last Week Tonight” host uses numbers and graphics to make the deviousness of the American Health Care Act glaringly obvious.

BLANK The U.S. is a poor country, and Americans “refuse to see that,” Dinh argues in a conversation with the Truthdig columnist during a new episode of “On Contact.”

If the president wants a full-blown investigation to address his wiretapping claims against his predecessor, let’s have it—and get the answers to three crucial questions in the process.

“Stranger Fruit” video still via CNN More than two years after the killing of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old African American shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., details have come to the fore that have brought fresh scrutiny to the era-defining case. Filmmaker Jason Pollock included previously unreleased footage in his new documentary “Stranger Fruit” that was taken from a surveillance camera in the store Brown visited on the day he was killed by Officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9, 2014. Читать дальше...

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Falling civilizations embrace what Freud calls the death instinct. They are dominated by oligarchic elites, imbeciles, narcissists and con artists who, on the way down, feed us fantasies and steal as much as they can.