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What ‘Right’ to Vote in Iowa?
Iowa is moving to revise its voter registration application to help clear up widespread confusion over felons' voting rights.
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How a Fruit and Vegetable Auction in Rural Ohio Helps Appalachian Farmers Thrive
Before the auction opened there wasn't a comparable community gathering place anywhere in the county.
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GOP Economic Sabotage Continues With Filibuster of Jobless Benefits
Republicans are engaged in yet more hostage-taking obstruction.
Guarded Optimism
The department has found alarming rates of abuse by staff on youngsters in custody.
India’s Arab Spring in Winter 2014
When Delhi state's November elections brought the new anticorruption Aam Admi Party to power, calculations about India's upcoming national elections were upset, and a previously narrow field suddenly widened.
From AIDS to Lyme: Will We Let History Repeat Itself?
Some argue that the inadequate early government response to the AIDS epidemic - including diagnostic, treatment, funding and research failures - is being repeated with Lyme disease, affecting hundreds …
EPA: California Offshore Frackers Must Disclose Chemicals Dumped Into Ocean
The EPA issued a rule last week requiring oil and gas firms fracking in federal waters off the coast of southern California to report the volume and chemical makeup …
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Scandinavian Struggles: Why So Dismal in Denmark?
Paul Krugman: Who knew that Denmark was doing so badly? The likely culprit is a very high level of household debt.
Chris Hedges | The Trouble With Chris Christie
The bridgegate scandal is a window into how federal agencies and the security and surveillance apparatus would be routinely employed in a Christie presidency to punish anyone who challenged …
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Where Is the Democrats’ Outrage?
Eugene Robinson: Shame on Republicans for blocking long-term unemployment benefits for 1.3 million Americans. And shame on Democrats for letting them.