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CFPB Appoints Private Education Loan Ombudsman

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) announced the appointment of Robert G. Cameron to serve as the Bureau’s private education loan ombudsman.

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Andy Kroll The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau just announced a new student-loan ombudsman. (consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsr…) You'll never believe it, but his last job was in *compliance* for a *private loan servicer* accused — as in 10 class action suits — of screwing over borrowers. pic.twitter.com/S0nOvVnZrw 4d

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Why Won’t the Democrats Hold a Climate Change Debate?

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Democratic National Committee faces backlash after it rejects calls to highlight climate crisis

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WikiLeaks and Fox News Are Silent on the Debunked Seth Rich Conspiracy Theory

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Mueller confirmed the DNC staffer didn’t steal his own party’s emails. Why won’t Sean Hannity or Julian Assange apologize for spreading misinformation?

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Andy Kroll I asked WikiLeaks and Fox News if they planned to correct the record, retract old statements, or apologize after the Mueller Report debunked the Seth Rich conspiracy theories. Their reply: Silence. 119d

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Elizabeth Warren Wants to Wipe Out Student Debt for 42 Million Americans

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It’s the most ambitious higher education plan yet from a 2020 contender

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Andy Kroll NEW: Elizabeth Warren wants to cancel student-loan debt for 42 million Americans — and make all public colleges and universities tuition-free. Read about Warren's new higher-ed plan at @RollingStone 120d

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The Eternal Sunshine of Mayor Pete

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The South Bend mayor is selling a “new American spring” as the antidote to Trumpism

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Andy Kroll “We can’t just talk policy points all the time,” @PeteButtigieg told @bobmoserwrites last fall. “As Democrats, we have to figure out how to tell a better story about our principles. Laundry lists don’t move people; they don’t persuade anybody.” 127d

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Trump Is Getting Exactly the Attorney General He Wants

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William Barr’s testimony this week has Democrats worried that his primary goal is to protect the president

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Andy Kroll Trump Is Getting Exactly the Attorney General He Wants 132d

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CNN Is Silent on Why It Gave Airtime to a Conspiracy Theorist

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The news network let discredited right-wing operative Jerome Corsi peddle misinformation Monday night

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Pro-Trump Conspiracy Peddler Jerome Corsi Apologizes to Seth Rich’s Family

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Corsi retracted a column parroting the baseless conspiracy that Rich and his brother hacked the DNC in 2016

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Jay Inslee Wants to Be the First Climate President. Is America Ready?

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The governor of Washington hopes to take his climate crusade all the way to the White House

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Andy Kroll "How many dead people will it take before you decide to do something about climate change?” Gov. @JayInslee asked EPA chief Andrew Wheeler last Sunday. Now, Inslee is done shaming Republicans into action. The only option, he says, is "to remove them." 172d

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More Americans Than Ever Believe in Climate Change, No Matter What Trump Says

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New rates of melting ice underscore the results of an encouraging survey about environmental attitudes

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Andy Kroll More Americans Than Ever Believe in Climate Change, No Matter What Trump Says. 210d

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Saving the Paris Agreement

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How a team of U.S. diplomats outfoxed Trump and helped salvage the global pact on climate change

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Andy Kroll How "a quiet insurgency" by career diplomats at the State Department kept America’s place at the table in global climate negotiations — and helped save the Paris climate treaty ... for now. A @jeffgoodell masterwork 212d

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Republican Congressman: Trump’s Border Crisis Is a ‘Myth’

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A conversation with Texas Rep. Will Hurd, who knows the border better than most of his colleagues

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Andy Kroll NEW: Rep. Will Hurd — a ***Texas Republican*** — tells @RollingStone that @realDonaldTrump's border crisis is a "myth." Hurd says Trump's "wall" is the "most expensive and least effective way to do border security." MORE 214d

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A Trump Nominee Leading the Interior Department’s ‘Huge’ Overhaul Earned Big Oil Money

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The high-ranking, still-unconfirmed official running the agency’s reorganization has a glaring conflict of interest

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Andy Kroll NEW: The high-ranking official leading the Interior Dept's "huge" reorganization plan has a BIG conflict-of-interest problem: She earned up to $2.1 million from oil & gas companies — which stand to benefit from the reorganization she's leading. 216d

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Julian Castro Officially Enters the 2020 Presidential Race

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Castro says his first act as president would be to recommit the United States to the Paris climate agreement

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Inside the Democrats’ New Plan to Fight Dark Money and Voter Suppression

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Take a look at sweeping changes Democrats are proposing under a new House bill

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Harry Reid Has a Few Words for Washington

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The former Senate majority leader on President Trump and Senator Chuck Schumer, and on why he doesn’t regret ending the filibuster for judicial appointments.

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Andy Kroll “As has been written since I left,” he told me, “I was kind of a strange guy.” @MarkLeibovich, as only Leibovich can, on Harry Reid's final days 229d

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Jay Inslee Believes a Climate Candidate (Like Himself?) Can Beat Trump in 2020

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“No nation has followed Donald Trump off the cliff with climate change. Not a single one. We want to keep it that way.”

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Andy Kroll "It is absolutely imperative that the Democratic Party put forth a candidate who will make climate change a principal, front-burner issue." Is Gov. @JayInslee that candidate? 259d

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Our Earned Media President

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As Donald Trump enters his third year in office, the political press is still playing his game — and he’s still winning

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Andy Kroll The way we cover Trump isn't working. It wasn't during the 2016 campaign. It isn't now. And we've never stopped to figure out a better way. Rethinking how we cover The Earned Media President - my latest 265d

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Trump Doesn’t ‘Believe’ the Latest Climate Report. The Climate Doesn’t Care.

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The Black Friday climate report that our president denounced Monday is a brilliant document — and shows scientists have not given up hope

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Andy Kroll Trump doesn’t "believe" the latest climate report. The climate doesn’t care. @jeffgoodell on the Black Friday climate report = essential 266d

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Sen. Chris Murphy’s Lonely Quest to End the War in Yemen

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The Connecticut senator on the U.S. role in yet another disastrous war in the Middle East, our ‘head-scratching’ ties with Saudi Arabia, and the Khashoggi case

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Andy Kroll One senator's lonely crusade to end the undercovered, overlooked, and devastating war in Yemen 274d