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Will GOP Governors Really Try “Nullifying” Obamacare?
A plan to end the federal health care law on the state level is underway, led by the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity and Cato Institute, with help from American …
Scenes from a Crisis: Volunteers Bond with Occupiers for Sandy Relief
Sandy storm relief volunteers from disparate organizations and backgrounds bond under Occupy's banner for a common cause.
Grand Bargain or Great Betrayal? Reading the Tea Leaves of Fiscal Intentions for Entitlements
One analyst reads between the lines to decipher the future of entitlements.
The Mandate of Hell: How Not to Change the World
Tom Engelhardt: Stop waiting for change, u201cbigu201d or otherwise, to come from Washington. It wonu2019t.
Mirror, Mirror: Who’s Really Behind the Lack of Gender, Sexual and Racial Diversity in Comics?
Who, exactly, keeps our media so homogeneous? Hint: It isn't the usual suspects.
As Fiscal Abyss Approaches, Some Cliff Notes on Washington
Legislators are likely to punt the deadline for cuts to the new Congress.
Did Big Money Really Lose This Election? Hardly
After the most money-drenched elections in history — with close to $6 billion spent on the 2012 presidential and Congressional races alone, by one estimate — big donors and …
So, What Now? Five Racial Justice Thinkers Make Sense of the Election
There was less swagger, but arguably more urgency as millions of people headed to the polls this week to re-elect President Barack Obama.
Elites Demanding Austerity Also Ignored Housing Bubble
We shouldn't trust the same people who ignored the housing bubble when they tell us we need to more cuts to social programs.
COINTELPRO 101 (Part 2)
COINTELPRO, the secret FBI project to infiltrate and disrupt domestic organizations thought to be u201csubversive,u201d targeted many African-American, Native-American, and other movements for self-determination by people of color in …