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The Master’s Radical Political Critique
The Master, the latest movie from director Paul Thomas Anderson, initially seems to miss the mark after aiming high, but it nonetheless gets under your skin! A few days …
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Life After Facebook: Real Connection Takes Work, and It’s Worth It
Writer Hunter S. Thompson was a pro at weird. But he would find Facebook beyond weird. Even as tiny green tree frogs scampered around the edge of his tequila …
Let My People Vote
Voter ID laws aim to prevent in-person voter fraud. In person voter fraud basically never happens. So why are so many states passing these laws? Sarah Silverman explain in …
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State of the Movement: Lessons Learned From One Year of Occupy Wall Street
Here are some of the lessons I've learned as an activist since the birth of the Occupy Wall Street movement on Sept 17, 2011.
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Citizens United Ruling Accounts for 78 Percent of Outside Campaign Spending
“This money enabled outside groups to run shadow campaigns for or against candidates of their choice,” according to the study. The spending also includes about"$4.1 million in expenditures for …
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All Eyes on Ohio
It seems likely that this election will be decided in the industrial Midwest, Ohio in particular - a region that has bounced back strongly economically.
In UN Speech, Obama Warns Time Runs Short on Iran
But he refused to go further than what he has said in the past, that
Of the Two Major Views on Why Romney Is Losing, One Is More Convincing
Robert Reich: Romney is giving the GOP exactly what it wants, but what the GOP wants is not what the rest of America wants.
Neither Candidate: Fifteen Issues This Election Is Not About
Neither candidate is interested in stopping the use of the death penalty for federal or state crimes.
Quantifying “Muslim Rage“
The real question to ask is why U.S. corporate media decide to pay more attention to some protests than others.