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Fired Up! A Call to Boycott “Repulsive, Misogynistic” Limbaugh and His Sponsors
Rush Limbaugh is a repulsive misogynistic blowhard. By now, no one should expect more than neanderthal grunts from him. But, his radio program is owned by a syndicator, premiere, …
Tim Wise on White Resentment in a Multiracial Society
(Photo: Eric Allix Rogers / Flickr) Tim Wise: Yes, of course, although there is also a bit of a uniquely “American” twist. On the one hand, there …
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Mass Burnings of Korans at Bagram Fuel Anti-Americanism
(Photo: Tyler Hicks / The New York Times) As the streets of Afghanistan ring out with cries of anti-American outrage, one is compelled to pause and reflect …
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Labor’s Fight Is Our Fight
Unions have been fighting the 1% vs 99% fight for more than 100 years. Now the rest of us are learning that this fight is also OUR fight. The …
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Drug Lobby Gave $9.4 million to Nonprofits That Spent Big on 2010 Election
The drug lobby's trade association was a multimillion-dollar donor to nonprofit groups that were actively working to elect federal candidates during the 2010 election, an iWatch News analysis of …
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Rick Santorum on Drugs
(Photo: Gage Skidmore / Flickr) Rick Santorum has taken the role as the family values candidate in the GOP presidential primary and won a few upsets in the …
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Graph: Republican Hyper-Partisanship and the Hyper-Polarization Of Congress
Announcing her intention to retire yesterday, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) decried the “atmosphere of polarization” that she finds “frustrating.” While Snowe didn’t assign responsibility for the current climate of …
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Are Bankers Capitalists?
The phrase “Wall Street” is evocative in American culture. For generations, it has referred to the showcase of American capitalism: our financial services system that ensured the efficient use …
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New Map Shows Location of Nation’s Most Toxic Industrial Boilers
Washington - Industries in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and South Carolina will have the most catching up to do when—and if—EPA begins forcing factory owners to tackle toxic emissions from …
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Witnessing the Death of the Republican Party
A week ago, Rick Santorum looked as though he might give Mitt Romney a thrashing in the Michigan primary, which would have unleashed a wave of grim assessments of …