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Corporate Media’s Hidden Wave of Consolidation
A historic wave of corporate media consolidation is changing the landscape of local TV news.
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Female Prisoners’ Babies Shouldn’t Be Sentenced to Life Without Breast Milk
The vast majority of the 10,000 babies born to US prisoners each year are deprived of their mothers - and their mother's milk.
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The Triumph of the Right
The Right is still winning the big one: How the nation understands our biggest domestic problem.
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Dick Cheney’s Heartless Hypocrisy
Dick Cheney's new book about his life-saving heart transplant has drawn much fawning coverage. But little attention has gone to the hypocrisy of the ex-vice president accepting expensive government-funded …
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Stop Treating Capitalists Like They’re Gods
Senator Rand Paul has no idea how capitalism works. That's because, like most Americans, he confuses capitalism with free enterprise.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Many States Don’t Require a Background Check to Buy a Gun, and More
In many states around our nation, you don't need a background check to buy a gun, and more.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Fracking Companies Want to Start Drilling at the Source of Washington’s Water Supply, and More
In today's On the News segment: Fracking companies want to move in to the George Washington National Forest, which supplies water to the DC metro area; at the same …
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Are the Koch Brothers the New “Copper Kings”?
Charles and David Koch, worth a combined estimated $68 billion in net worth, are among the driving forces behind the corruption of our democracy.
Why Washington Can’t Stop: The Coming Era of Tiny Wars and Micro-Conflicts
What our leaders don't get is the most basic, practical fact of our moment: war simply doesn't work, not big, not micro - not for Washington.
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Paul Krugman | America’s New Employment Reality
If certain skills are in short supply, show us the workers with these skills who are being offered premium wages; show us the employers laying out real dollars to …