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Widespread Use of Plea Bargains Plays Major Role in Mass Incarceration
Plea bargaining has become historically ubiquitous as the principal, if not primary, method of criminal case disposition in the US.
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William Rivers Pitt | Winning the Outside Chance
All we won on Tuesday night was the outside chance of not losing. What is made of that very slim margin is entirely up to you.
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Sensata Workers Gain Support for Full-Year Severance Pay
The plight of Sensata workers affects the whole community of Freeport, Illinois, where unemployment is around 12 percent.
Romney, Richard Nixon and Las Vegas Cash: A Hidden History Repeats Itself
Nixon and Romney both luxuriated in the patronage of casino tycoons thanks to the deep pockets of the same Mafia-linked company, the Sands Corporation.
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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 …