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Living the Orwellian Life
America has a tradition of spying on its own, something George Orwell predicted long ago in his novel 1984.
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The American Public’s Shocking Lack of Policy Knowledge is a Threat to Progress and Democracy
If the public is as dramatically uninformed as polls show about an array of critical issues, including the Affordable Care Act, democracy is seriously threatened, argues Doolittle.
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Time to Close Guantanamo
President Obama continues to ignore the situation in Guantanamo and has 18 prisoners being force-fed.
Money, Politics and the Roberts Court: Seventh Game of The Court’s Plutocrat Series
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in what has become its annual dismantling of campaign finance law.
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Why Won’t The Press Police Radical Republicans?
Eager to maintain a political symmetry in which both sides are responsible for sparking conflict, the press effectively gives Republicans a pass for adopting truly outside-the-norm behavior.
The Standoff: The House and Obama
They're crazy too. Iu2019m going to shoot you. That will be the method.
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Texas State Trooper Checkpoints Meet Social Media
With tens of thousands of people up in arms about the checkpoints, there is momentum for reform.
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Subsidizing Economic Inequality
The push to privatize the public sector through contracting out is expanding our economic divide.
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Boehner in the Catbird’s Seat
By taking up the Obamacare battle, Boehner's grip on the speakership may be tightening, not loosening.
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Snowden Accepts Whistleblower Award
Edward Snowden was honored by a group of former US intelligence officials as a courageous whistleblower during a Moscow ceremony.