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June 22, 2015
We Need to Fight Again to Stop Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Fast track is headed back to the Senate.
NationAction
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June 17, 2015
What’s the True Cost of Free Trade?
The price for deals like TPP is paid in forced migration and the refugee crises that are rolling around the globe.
Gary Younge
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May 13, 2015
The Imaginary Public Support for Obama’s Trade Agenda
Why does the White House keep telling reporters the public is lining up behind the trade push?
George Zornick
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May 12, 2015
Could Fast Track Ultimately Destroy Dodd-Frank? (Yes.)
The White House has been going hard against Elizabeth Warren for making this claim—but she’s right.
George Zornick
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May 11, 2015
Why So Many Democrats Rejected Obama’s Lobbying on the Trans-Pacific Trade Deal
The president’s suggestion that his critics do not understand trade issues is “absolutely inaccurate.”
John Nichols
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April 17, 2015
If Clinton Is Serious About Economic Populism, She Should Come Out Against Fast Track
This is the time to break with Obama, and her own past, by siding with labor, environmentalists, human rights activists.
John Nichols
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April 12, 2015
Hillary Clinton’s Soft Populism Is Not Enough
Clinton launched her campaign bemoaning inequality and vowing to fight for everyday Americans. Will she follow through?
John Nichols
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March 24, 2015
Free Trade Isn’t about Trade. It’s About Bureaucrats—and Guns.
Free trade agreements like the TPP have provisions that are designed less for trade, and more about replacing public bureaucrats with private, corporate ones.
Mike Konczal
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January 7, 2015
Do You Think Products Made in China Should Be Called ‘US Exports’?
If not, we must stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership before it does more damage to our country.
William Greider
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November 11, 2014
The GOP Senate: Worry!
From blocking nominees to launching pointless investigations to deregulating everything, the new Senate is poised to wreak havoc.
George Zornick