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Constitutional Amendment Not Needed: Congress Already Has a Remedy
The US Capitol Building. (Photo: ttarasiuk) Although the Constitution already includes a remedy, certain elected officials and public interest organizations are advocating for a constitutional amendment to …
Occupy the Congress: Do You Smell a Rat?
I found myself in a Potomac, Maryland, mansion, smack in the middle of an actual 1 percent get-together over drinks and nosherai, talking to a guy whose "small operation" …
Close the Guantánamo Gulag
A guard tower at Camp Delta, part of the prison facility at the US Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on July 23, 2008. (Photo: Fred R. Conrad / …
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Free Enterprise on Trial
Mitt Romney is casting the 2012 campaign as “free enterprise on trial” – defining free enterprise as achieving success through “hard work and risking-taking.” Tea-Party favorite Senator Jim DeMint …
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A Fair Share of Scrutiny
"You know I think it's fine to talk about those things in quiet rooms," he told the "Today" show's Matt Lauer last week. "But the president has made this …
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Corporate Personhood Cannot Withstand Organized Persons
There are many schemes now for undoing the doctrines under which corporations claim constitutional rights and bribery is deemed constitutionally protected "speech." Every single one of these schemes depends …
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Law and Order 24/7, Except at Tax Time
Any tax system that subjects rich people to high taxes is asking for trouble. Or so the politicians who cater to people of means incessantly argue. The higher the …
Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson on Engineered Inequality
In this show segment, Moyers & Company dives into one of the most important and controversial issues of our time: How Washington and Big Business colluded to make the …
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It’s Do or Die for the United Auto Workers
Historians invariably cite the sit-down strikes at the country's auto plants in the 1930s as a key to the spread of unionization throughout the automobile industry and throughout American …