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Prisoners’ Families Are Paying for State Prison Kickbacks in Order to Phone Their Loved Ones
The average state commission was 42 percent, but some reached as high as 60 percent of the money from the phone calls.
What Can Labor Win if It Backs Obama’s Re-Election?
Amy Dean talks to Richard Kahlenberg and Richard Bensinger about reforms that could finally give battle-weary union members a reason to send Obama and other Democrats back to Washington.
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Why Obama Should Be Attacking Casino Capitalism
Bain Capital and JPMorgan are parts of the same problem.
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Congress Isn’t Just Stalemated, It’s Broken, Experts Say
Today, almost everything on Capitol Hill is taken hostage in the partisan war. Thereu2019s no single easy explanation, but there are several.
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Rape Behind Bars: New Rules to Protect LGBTQ Inmates, but Will Immigration and Customs Enforcement Comply?
After living in Tucson, Arizona, for 20 years, Tanya Guzman-Martinez was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and placed in a detention center for suspected undocumented immigrants
The First Domino Falls in Greece
Greeceu2019s situation is not an isolated event, but a bellwether for the industrial world and beyond.
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Today’s GOP: Worst Political Party Since the Civil War
The last time things got this bad was about 150 years ago - and we needed a Civil War to resolve it.
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35,948 Arrested Yesterday
Last Friday, the day the NATO 3 were arrested, approximately 35,948 people were arrested across the United States.
“Dirty War” Tactic of Disappearances Reappears in Mexico
The War on Drugs is becoming another u201cDirty Waru201d in Mexico, with the tactic of enforced disappearances reappearing as a commonplace occurrence in the country.
Feds Punt on Leadership Over Fracking Rules, Experts Say
New BLM rule stands up well next to state regulations, says one scientist. But unfortunately, that's because most state regulations are very poor.