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After $9 Billion in Losses, JPMorgan Still Wins With Co-Opted Congress, Hobbled Volcker Rule
The Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) current budget of $1.32 billion is dwarfed by the $4 billion to $9 billion JPMorgan Chase may ultimately lose through disastrous gambling on …
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EXCLUSIVE: DoD Report Reveals Some Detainees Interrogated While Drugged, Others “Chemically Restrained“
Detainees in custody of the US military were interrogated while drugged with powerful antipsychotic and other medications that
Will World Population Day Open the Gates to Coercive Contraception?
But many reproductive health and human rights activists worry that the summit represents a serious backslide to the bad old days of population control when contraception was deployed as …
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Suffocating Austerity: The West’s Folly in Greece Repeats Old Patterns
The troika's attack on Greek sovereignty recalls the devastation of the Fourth Crusade, but there is an honorable way to resolve Greece's debt crisis.
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Americans for Prosperity Rally Calls for “Nullifying” Health Care Law (With Help From ALEC)
The evening after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Wisconsin chapter of the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity held a "Hands Off My …
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Bank Scandal Turns Spotlight to Regulators
Politicians in both London and Washington are questioning whether regulators allowed banks to report false rates in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis and afterward.
Conservative Christianity’s Marketing Gimmick to Keep Its Old-Time, Heaven-and-Hell Religion Afloat
LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on tThe Southern Baptist Convention is a force to be reckoned with. As the …
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The GOP’s Crime Against Voters
The Republican-led crusade for voter ID laws is revealed as a cynical ploy to disenfranchise as many likely Democratic voters as possible, with poor people and minorities the main …
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Department of Labor to Investigate Union Busting on Army Base Following ITT Report
After reading an exclusive report that appeared at Working In These Times, the Department of Labor has opened an investigation into captive-audience anti-union meetings held on an army base …
How Scalia Distorts the Framers
In rejecting the Commerce Clause as the constitutional foundation for the Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Courtu2019s right-wing justices distorted Americau2019s founding narrative, including one made-up view attributed to …