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Public Citizen and Common Cause Call on Candidates to Reject Outside Spending and Put Voters First
Public Citizen and Common Cause today sent letters urging congressional and gubernatorial candidates across the country to take a “Peopleu2019s Pledge” to reject outside spending by non-party groups in …
A Civil War Myth That Hurts Us All
Americans are shamefully unaware of their own country's past.
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Religious Liberty in the Air Force Under Dire Threat: An Open Letter to USAF Chief of Staff
An attorney asks the Air Force to protect religious liberty.
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How a Lack of Power and Guns Go Together
The NRA can't escape the influence of the more radical parts of the gun movement - the people who, for whatever reason, want to bring an AR-15 to Chipotle.
Kuwaiti Undergoes Hearing To Determine Release From Guantanamo
Fouzi Khalid Abdullah al-Awda, 37, one of two last Kuwaiti prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay Prison will be the fifth detainee undergoing a Periodic Review Board hearing Wednesday, June …
Anonymous Shell Companies Are Part of the Problem, Too: Often Used to Inject Dark Money Into Campaigns
The Judiciary Committee is holding hearings in the wake of two recent Supreme Court decisions, McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission and Citizens United, both of which have unleashed a …
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New ITPI Report: Privatization Triggers “Alarming Race to the Bottom” for Middle Class, Community Services
Case studies from across America show how outsourcing public services forces taxpayers to widen income inequality, lower quality of services in their own communities.
Force-Feeding Videos Sought by Second Guantánamo Hunger-Striker Thought to Show ‘Gratuitous Brutality’
Lawyers for Mohammad Ahmad Ghulam Rabbani, a Pakistani father of three held for over a decade without charge in Guantu00e1namo Bay, have today sought a court order compelling the …
Does War Have a Future?
23 countries doubled their military spending between 2004 and 2013. None, of course, came anywhere near to matching the military spending of the United States.
The VA Scandal: What Lessons Can We Draw?
The VA scandal over access to care for our veterans is, of course, a betrayal of our government's debt to our veterans and a national disgrace that needs fixing …