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Congress Approves a $127 Billion Transportation and Student Loan Package
The deal wraps up a two-year transportation measure with bills to extend subsidized student loans.
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Some States Reluctant Over Medicaid Expansion
Republican officials in more than a half-dozen states said they opposed expanding Medicaid or had serious doubts about it.
Pelican Bay Prison: One Year Later, Policy Remains “Debrief or Die“
In the SHU, which comprises half of California's Pelican Bay State Prison, prisoners are locked into their cells for at least 22 hours a day. Over 500 people have …
Money, Power and Politics
When it is a question of the efficacy of money in politics and workers fail to put up a fight, money prevails.
Discredited Lie Detector Technology to Be Used on Intelligence Officials to Discourage Whistleblowing
The nationu2019s top intelligence official announced that the government is expanding its use of the polygraph to expose federal employees who leak classified information to the media.
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Judicial Squeamishness and Hypocrisy
SCOTUS's brazenness in Citizens United is rivaled only by its timidity concerning censorship and the FCC.
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Are We at a Tipping Point?
Are we at a tipping point, where unions are no longer able to play their historical role of creating a shared working-class common sense?
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The End Is Near
If we continue down this path, the planet, our food supplies, our climate, and life as we know it will collapse.
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Justice Roberts’ Switch
Robert Reich: The Supreme Court ... has only the trust and confidence of average citizens. If it is viewed as politically partisan, that trust is in jeopardy.
Racial Profiling in Arizona: SB 1070 2(b) and Not to Be
As long as this issue is defined as that of too many brown people, too many Mexicans and too many people from Central and South America, there will never …