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Scrap the Sequester, Solve Inequality
Itu2019s time to close the tax loopholes and make Americau2019s billionaire class pay its fair share of taxes like the rest of us do.
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On “Lincoln” and Lincoln
“Lincoln” the movie raises key questions: Who was our sixteenth president, after all? And how best to represent him? “Lincoln” has more talking than action, and some audience members …
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Threatened a President But Passed Her Background Check?
It barely made the news—like this week's Delaware courthouse shooting that left three dead. But last week the New York Times reported that Alice Boland threatened administrators at Ashley …
You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby (Or Have You?)
Yes, weu2019ve come a long way, but without achieving full access to legal abortion, comprehensive childcare, or equal pay.
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War and Institutionalizing Abuse
In the halls of Congress and confines of the Oval Office, the perception is that the U.S. is at war with an enemy called al-Qaeda. Is this actually the …
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Monsanto Likely to Score Supreme Court Win
Because of the Technology Agreement and the patent on Monsantou2019s genes, a farmer who saves and replants these seeds can be sued.
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Michael Moore | How Oscar Nominee Emad Burnat Was Held at LAX
Michael Moore: The Americans in the dining room apologized to Emad for the way our government and its security police treated him.
The Financialization of Food
Sasha Breger Bush: In the name of democratizing finance, derivative exchanges are achieving the opposite.
Will a Higher Minimum Wage Cost Jobs?
Bob Pollin on the theory that a higher minimum wage will reduce jobs available to young people entering the work force and won't reduce poverty.
Sharif Abdel Kouddous: Two Years into Uprising, Bahrain Feels Like a “Nation Under Occupation”
emocracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous joins us to discuss his recent trip to Bahrain, where the Sunni monarchy continues its crackdown on a two-year-old uprising.