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Indiana Supreme Court Ruling Destroys Fourth Amendment Rights
The Indiana Supreme Court recently ruled in Barnes v. Indiana that reasonable resistance to unlawful police entry into a person's home would no longer be recognized under Indiana law. …
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Every Budget Under Assault
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) speaks at the Economic Club of New York, May 9, 2011. In the speech, delivered ahead of a second round of debt limit negotiations …
“Beyond Borders”: Documenting Transnational Communities
Graton, California - June 26, 2004 - A young man in his sleeping tent in a camp set up by migrant indigenous workers from the Mexican state of Oaxaca, …
Representative Schakowsky, Am I a “Provocation”?
In the grand scheme of things, Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky is one of my favorite members of Congress: progressive, smart, articulate, willing to stand up for what's right even …
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News in Brief: Yemen on the Brink of War, and More
Yemen on the Brink of War
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Eric Cantor Promises Oil Speculators That Republicans Will Block Financial Regulations
Video recorded by Campus Progress staff writer and ThinkProgress Blog Fellow Micah Uetricht. Yesterday morning, House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) visited the Chicago headquarters of …
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Democracy’s Dawn in Tunisia and Egypt?
With protests fading in Tunis and seeming to have peaked in Cairo, it is time to ask whether Tunisia and Egypt will complete democratic transitions. I have been visiting …
Schwarzenegger and Dominique Strauss-Kahn: When Powerful Men Cross Lines
The week’s news about the sexual conduct of politically powerful men gives me a queasy feeling of déjà vu. As the French agonize over whether Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s …
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After Two Months, No End in Sight to Libyan Air Campaign
Washington - On March 19, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's army had quashed weeks of anti-government protests and was poised for an all-out assault on Benghazi, the opposition's stronghold, when …
Afghanistan Under the Knife
It was a primitive form of surgery. Almost ten years ago, the United States and its allies stuck a knife deep into Afghanistan in an attempt to remove two …