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Kids Eating Rat Poison Is an “Acceptable Risk” for ALEC
An American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) member is defying Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules limiting the sale of rat poisons that pose dangers to children and the ecosystem. ALEC …
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Alabama Agriculture Department Advances Plan to Replace Immigrant Workers With Prisoners
ThinkProgress has been reporting on the catastrophic economic consequences of Alabama’s harshest-in-the-nation immigration law. Undocumented workers are the backbone of Alabama’s agriculture industry, and their exodus has already created …
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The Toxic Truth About Nail Salons
If you’ve ever stepped into a nail salon, you know the smell of a chemical cocktail that hits you like an invisible wall. While consumers may tolerate it during …
Restoring Government, of, by and for the People
Rescinding corporate personhood is the first step toward a larger vision of reclaiming and reinvigorating democracy around the world.
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Words That Don’t Work: Frank Luntz’s Trap for Progressives
Frank Luntz speaking at the Western Republican Leadership Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) Progressives had some fun last week with Frank Luntz, who told …
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The Most Important Economic Speech of His Presidency
The President’s speech today in Osawatomie, Kansas — where Teddy Roosevelt gave his “New Nationalism” speech in 1910 — is the most important economic speech of his presidency in …
Occupy Our Homes
Occupy Wall Street's national day of foreclosure resistance kicks off with the first family members occupying their home. (Photo: Matt Renner) Yesterday, no one had lived in …
Merry Christmas: No More Insider Trading on Capitol Hill?
Senate Republican leaders speak to reporters at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Dec. 6, 2011. (Photo: Stephen Crowley / The New York Times) The other day, …
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Families Join the Occupy Movement as the 99 Percent Takes On the Housing Crisis
A nine-year-old demonstrates with a picture of a home that Fannie Mae foreclosed on in Boston, October 10, 2011. (Photo: Lauren Metter, DIgBoston.com) Kelly Shaw and her …
License to Profit: Legalized Corruption in the US Congress
US Capitol Building. (Photo: Jason OX4) Are members of Congress corrupt? Perhaps we should define the term. There is the terrible, “legal” corruption of pay-for-play campaign contributions, …