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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Walmart Heirs Have More Wealth Than 41 Percent of American Families – Combined, and More
In today's On the News segment: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau slapped Capital One bank with a $210 million fine today for using “deceptive marketing tactics” to lure customers into …
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Think Political Conventions Don’t Matter? Think Again!
With an incumbent guaranteed renomination, will the Charlotte convention this summer matter?
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Eighteen Prominent Republicans Who Want Romney to Release More Tax Returns Right Now
Mitt Romney continues to resist pressure to turn over more tax returns. In an interview today he said he is u201csimply not enthusiastic about giving them hundreds or thousands …
Election Countdown 2012: The Head of New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation’s Division of Mineral Resources Sees Global Warming as a Good Thing, and More
As head of the Department of Environmental Conservationu2019s Division of Mineral Resources, Bradley J. Field is a prominent figure in an agency that has promoted hydraulic fracturing as a …
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Mexican Student Movement Confronts Vote Buying and Media Bias in Wake of Contested Election Results
Will Mexico's youth-led movement and newer generations change the very fabric of its country's fragile and belabored democracy?
Minnesota Town Bans Signs in Yards Unless They’re Pro-War
At a festival called Peacestock in Wisconsin last weekend, I met a woman who lives in Little Falls, Minnesota. That city had forced her to take down signs …
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Study: Segregation and Poverty Put Black Women at Higher Risk for Breast Cancer
In Chicago, nearly 80 African-American women die of breast cancer every year because of racial differences in access to healthcare, a new study suggests, the worst number of any …
For Barney Frank’s Legacy: Pass the Mulvaney Amendment to Freeze Military Spending
In the cause of working to rein in America's excessive, unnecessary, out-of-control military spending, Frank has stood out from his colleagues, both in terms of advancing the issue in …
A Coup Over Land: The Resource War Behind Paraguay’s Crisis
Each bullet hole on the downtown Asunciu00f3n, Paraguay light posts tells a story. Some of them are from civil wars decades ago, some from successful and unsuccessful coups, others …
Bill Moyers | Financial Expert Sheila Bair on Keeping Banks Honest
Sheila Bair: I worry that the public is getting cynical about if the regulators in Washington can fix any of this.