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Free Enterprise on Trial
Mitt Romney is casting the 2012 campaign as “free enterprise on trial” – defining free enterprise as achieving success through “hard work and risking-taking.” Tea-Party favorite Senator Jim DeMint …
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A Fair Share of Scrutiny
“You know I think it's fine to talk about those things in quiet rooms,” he told the “Today” show's Matt Lauer last week. "But the president has made this …
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Corporate Personhood Cannot Withstand Organized Persons
There are many schemes now for undoing the doctrines under which corporations claim constitutional rights and bribery is deemed constitutionally protected “speech.” Every single one of these schemes depends …
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Law and Order 24/7, Except at Tax Time
Any tax system that subjects rich people to high taxes is asking for trouble. Or so the politicians who cater to people of means incessantly argue. The higher the …
Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson on Engineered Inequality
In this show segment, Moyers & Company dives into one of the most important and controversial issues of our time: How Washington and Big Business colluded to make the …
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It’s Do or Die for the United Auto Workers
Historians invariably cite the sit-down strikes at the country's auto plants in the 1930s as a key to the spread of unionization throughout the automobile industry and throughout American …
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The Myth of “Isolated” Iran: Following the Money in the Iran Crisis
Let's start with red lines. Here it is, Washington’s ultimate red line, straight from the lion’s mouth. Only last week Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said of the …
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US to Force Drug Firms to Report Money Paid to Doctors
To head off medical conflicts of interest, the Obama administration is poised to require drug companies to disclose the payments they make to doctors for research, consulting, speaking, travel …
Medical Self Defense and the Black Panther Party: An Interview With Alondra Nelson
Alondra Nelson, a professor of sociology and gender studies at Columbia University, is the author of a new book released last month, entitled "Body and Soul: The Black Panther …
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Revealed: The FBI’s Secretive Practice of “Blackballing” Files
(Photo: kalavinka; Edited: JR / TO) Have you ever filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the FBI and received a written response from the …