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The People Beg to Differ, Mr. Romney: Corporations Aren’t People
The political world is abuzz with a heat-of-the-moment comment by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney that is starkly revealing. Here's how The Huffington Post reported it: …

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Eye on Europe: Once Public Trust Goes, Can Democracy Be Far Behind?
Is Western Democracy coming apart at the seams? A decade ago, only paranoid alarmists would have posed that question. Today, it may be an expression of …

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S&P Downgrade Brought on by Republican Obstructionism
Does anyone really think that Standard & Poor's downgrade of US debt would have occurred unless there had been the Congressional stand-off on raising the debt ceiling? For all …

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Jezebels, Welfare Queens – and Now, Criminally Bad Black Moms
The shocking Cobb County, Georgia, prosecution of Raquel Nelson, who law enforcement blamed when her son was killed by a drunken hit-and-run driver, has drawn national headlines and outrage. …

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Barack Obama and Harry Potter
Helene Cooper of the New York Times wrote a “news analysis” story saying that the challenge for President Obama is this: "Is he willing to …

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Rick Perry Says Social Security and Medicare Are Unconstitutional
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) has, to say the least, a very odd understanding of the Constitution. He thinks Texas should be able to opt out of Social Security, …

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The Death Penalty Is a Miscarriage of Justice: It Should Be Abolished
There is nothing moral or just about the death penalty—certainly not the way it is implemented in America, and anyone who says otherwise is either deluding themselves or trying …

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War Budget Cuts Are Possible if We Counter Contractors’ Multimillion-Dollar Campaign Spending
The deal worked out to allow a rise in the debt ceiling gives us our first real chance in more than a decade to make significant cuts to our …

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Eight Union Victories Progressives Should Be Watching – and Learning From
We always hear that unions are in trouble. But that's not the whole story. While nearly one of every three American workers were union members in 1945, …

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England’s Ashes – Our Future?
Hopefully the worst of the violence is over in Great Britain. London's fires are cooling into ashes, and with any luck they won't be rekindled. But even though …