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Can Unions Break From the Democrats? What a Real Declaration of Independence Would Mean
Richard Trumka at the Power Shift 2011 rally, April 19, 2011. In a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, Trumka called for a labor movement focused …
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Vermont Poised to Become 1st State to Enact Single-Payer Healthcare
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Rachel Maddow: The People’s Budget Should Be on the Table
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Immigration for Third Graders
I recently came across an article that brought attention to a particularly troublesome bit of curriculum being employed by an elementary school in Duluth, Georgia. When third-grade …
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Democracy Talks – Listen Up!
(Image: The New Press) Bill Moyers has a new book out. In the interest of full disclosure, I edited the book with him and co-wrote its introduction. …
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The Underclass Won’t Wait to Join Obama’s “Everybody“
I call him Class Warrior. He stands in front of me at a Circle K station. He is an outsider, excluded from the winnings market free play has placed …
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Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin Makes History by Signing Into Law Single-Payer Health Care
Last month, the Vermont Senate passed legislation, approved earlier by the House, that would establish a single payer health care system in the state. The legislation would make Vermont …
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All Eyes on the Storm
In 1954, E.B. White wrote a piece in The New Yorker about a hurricane hitting his part of Maine. The moment it left Boston, he notes in "The Eye …
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The Gingrich Style
It is hard to see why anyone was surprised by Newt Gingrich's self-ignited implosion in the earliest hours of his presidential candidacy. The career of the former House speaker …
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