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Who’s Buying the Midterm Elections? A Bunch of Old White Guys
Just 42 people are responsible for nearly a third of Super PAC spending in the 2014 election.
FAIR TV: Time Magazine Fail, Climate Change Dodge and Erasing Non-Voters
FAIR TV covers Time magazine's attacks on public school teachers, new GOP tactics on climate change denial and campaign coverage.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Children Are the Most Enduring Victims of the Recession, and More
In today's On the News segment: Children remain “the most enduring victims” of the recession, and more.
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Japan’s Natural Perils and Promises, in the Wake of Fukushima
Within the nuclear plant's 20-kilometer exclusion zone, most towns are empty.
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Plastics Chemical Linked to Changes in Baby Boys’ Genitals
Boys exposed in the womb to high levels of a chemical found in vinyl products are born with slightly altered genital development.
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This Is What Happens When You Criticize Teach For America
An internal memo reveals how TFA's obsessive PR game covers up its lack of results in order to justify greater expansion.
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Given Scant Information, Activists Struggle to Fight New Pipeline in Iowa
Limited information is also stalling comprehensive organizing efforts to connect environmental activists with landowners.
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A Kansas Group’s Push to Oust Judges Reveals a Gap in Campaign Finance Rules
Kansas election overseers are grappling with a new kind of dark money.
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Public Prisons, Private Profits
Private prisons hold only 8 percent of the US prison population. But for-profit companies have other ways of profiting from incarceration in local jails and state prisons.
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Ham Scramble: Southern Delicacy Companies Struggle to Replace Methyl Bromide
The fate of Southern ham makers lies with environmental regulators and an international treaty.