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Community Organizers Fill a Large Gap in Superstorm Sandy Relief, but It’s Not Enough
Four years after “community organizer” became a slur laced with all the racial venom that Sarah Palin could invoke, it is community organizers who are doing the real relief …
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The Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse: Hurricane Sandy Rides In
First, 9/11. Next, Katrina. Then Wall Street. Now, Sandy erases once and for all the line between man-made and natural disaster.
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Decisions 2012: End of “Our” World?
I vote, but I never endorse. Seems a bit presumptuous for people in media to go around making endorsements. Ideally, media should inform, and the readers should decide. As …
Four Questions Voters Should Ask About Proposition 37
Zack Kaldveer, Assistant Media Director with the YES on Prop 37 Campaign, suggests 4 questions voters should ask themselves before voting on Proposition 37. For more info, please visit …
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Before the Post-Mortems
This weekend, activist list-serves and web-sites were crackling with furious debate over whether or not progressives should be voting for President Obama this time around or helping to build …
The Race: A Public Service Announcement
One candidate's father was not born in America He came here and got on welfare even scarier His religion is different not Christian like the traditionPlus he went to …
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The Test of a Presidency
When should a sitting president be re-elected? Gone is the audacity of hope.
Is Ohio the Florida of the 2012 Election?
The Supreme Court has so far refused to intervene in the voting rights mess unfolding in Ohio, instead leaving in place a 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that …
The Day After the Elections In Woody Guthrie’s Country
While all eyes and ears are trained on the elections, Woody Guthrie, whose 100th birthday we celebrate this year, offers up another perspective on politics. In his poem u201cThis …
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Big Money Breakdown: Why 2012 Is the Most Expensive Election Ever
The names of donors who bet billions on the presidential horse race may never be known.