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Republicans Demand Social Security and Medicare Cuts: Is It Reported?
Is the media giving Americans the information they need in order to make informed decisions?
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Home Heating Costs Expected to Rise This Winter Despite Gas Fracking Boom
The United States is poised to boost natural gas exports while the most vulnerable Americans struggle to pay their heating bills and federal financial assistance dwindles.
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The Powerful Pornography of the Gun Fetish
Two gun rights groups scheduled an event called “Guns Save Lives Day” for the one-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre.
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How America Could Be the Happiest Country on Earth
And the happiest country in the world is ... Denmark!
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Groups Want Congress to Stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and More
A coalition of public interest groups wants Congress to stop the Trans Pacific Partnership, and more.
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Here and Now, the Lies Stop
The Great Shutdown/Default Debacle of 2013 is thankfully dwindling in the rearview mirror, but look sharp! Signpost dead ahead: The Great Shutdown/Default Debacle of 2014 is just around the …
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McOutrage: Poverty Wages for Workers, Corporate Jet for Execs
McDonald's has purchased for the use of its executives a Bombardier Challenger 605, a 12-seat plane that goes for between $27 million and $35 million.
Always and Everywhere: The New York Times and the Enduring “Threat” of Isolationism
The United States has been at war for well over a decade now, with US attacks and excursions in distant lands having become as commonplace as floods and forest …
No Glory in War for this Veteran
Glorification of war has become support for more war, for accepting the easy violence of war instead of the difficult peaceful resolution of human problems.
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Will Every State Eventually Expand Medicaid?
The question of whether red state Republicans' poor constituents are eventually covered under the lawu2019s Medicaid expansion may ultimately come down to state budget realities.