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Congressional Republicans Hack Away at Medicaid While the Rich Hollow It Out From the Inside
From left: Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) after a Republican response to President Barack Obama's speech on the national debt at the Capitol …
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Senate Blocks Reid’s Debt Ceiling Plan; Talks Continue
Washington - Last-ditch budget talks between top Congressional Republicans and President Obama continued on Sunday, as the top Senate Republican and Democrat both expressed optimism that a $3 trillion …
Los Angeles Janitors Fight for Their Jobs
(Photos: David Bacon) Over 1,400 Los Angeles janitors, members of United Service Workers West SEIU, protested the firing of immigrant workers by Able Building Maintenance. The company …
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Writers Cited in Breivik Manifesto Have Spoken at US Military Colleges as Anti-Terrorism Experts
In February 2009, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) received some very good news. A woman named Brigitte Gabriel had been disinvited from speaking at the United States Air …
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Matt Damon: Stop the War on Teachers
Actor and activist Matt Damon spoke at the Save Our Schools rally today. Before he spoke, Damon granted ThinkProgress an exclusive interview. We asked him about how teachers unions …
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Brazil’s Deforestation Quagmire
A string of recent events indicates that Amazonian deforestation and violence against environmental activists are on the rise. The Brazilian Congress’s lower house approves …
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Laws “Not Enough” to Tackle Violence Against Native Women
Juana Majel Dixon, first vice president of the National Congress of American Indians, said earlier this year that, "Young women on reservations live their lives in anticipation of being …
$35 Billion of Oil Plus an “Uncontacted” Tribe Equals Coverup
What do you do if you want to build a pipeline but an “uncontacted” tribe is in the way?
Norway Sounds Alarm Bells About Growing Right-Wing in Europe
Surrounding a statue of former Prime Minister Christian Michelsen, a memorial of flowers and candles was made to honor the victims killed in an act of domestic terrorism last …
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The Wisconsin Workers Uprising (Part 2)
Was the occupation of the state capital in Madison, Wisconsin a resurgence of organized labor in the United States? Or the last gasp for unionized workers, as they face …