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McCutcheon’s Supreme Cynicism
Chief Justice John Roberts has changed campaign finance law entirely, laying the groundwork for the complete annihilation of all efforts to limit money in politics.
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Paul Krugman | A Delusional Search for Reasonable Republicans
If former Treasury secretary Hank Paulson believes that he can support Republicans while still pushing for climate action, he's delusional.
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Does the Economy Serve Us or Them?
The endless stream of mergers and acquisitions over the past 34 years has taken away most all of the competition and has concentrated power.
Ikea Agrees to Pay Its Workers More Than Minimum Wage
Jeannette Wicks-Lim: There's a growing trend among the world's major corporations to voluntarily increase their workers' wages.
Is This the Dawn of a Renewable Energy Revolution?
Peter Sinclair says that utilities in time will become managers rather than owners of energy, and that the emerging systems are inherently anti-monopolistic.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Supreme Court Strikes Another Blow to Unions, and More
Our nation's highest court strikes another blow to public unions, and more.
Joseph Stiglitz: No, Spiraling Inequality Isn’t Inevitable
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz took to the opinion pages of The New York Times to argue that there's no such thing as “natural” market forces.
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What West Virginia Can Learn From Sarah Palin
If that state put a tax on coal and gas extraction - effectively a carbon tax - and then cycled all of the money it took in back to …
Guantanamo Detainees Demand Same Religious Rights as Hobby Lobby
The banning of communal prayers at Guantanamo is one of a series of recent measures against detainees on hunger strike.
The Shifting, Double-edged Sword called ‘Populism’
Hell or high water, the protean, populist clamor sets disparate ordinary people against variously infamous foes.