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Indiana Supreme Court Ruling Destroys Fourth Amendment Rights
The Indiana Supreme Court recently ruled in Barnes v. Indiana that reasonable resistance to unlawful police entry into a person's home would no longer be recognized under Indiana law. …
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Immigrants for Sale
Georgia is the latest state to pass an anti-immigrant bill like SB1070, with Governor Nathan Deal expected to sign it tomorrow. Georgia is also home to the largest private …
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Every Budget Under Assault
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) speaks at the Economic Club of New York, May 9, 2011. In the speech, delivered ahead of a second round of debt limit negotiations …
“Beyond Borders”: Documenting Transnational Communities
Graton, California - June 26, 2004 - A young man in his sleeping tent in a camp set up by migrant indigenous workers from the Mexican state of Oaxaca, …
Representative Schakowsky, Am I a “Provocation”?
In the grand scheme of things, Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky is one of my favorite members of Congress: progressive, smart, articulate, willing to stand up for what's right even …
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News in Brief: Yemen on the Brink of War, and More
Yemen on the Brink of War
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Eric Cantor Promises Oil Speculators That Republicans Will Block Financial Regulations
Video recorded by Campus Progress staff writer and ThinkProgress Blog Fellow Micah Uetricht. Yesterday morning, House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) visited the Chicago headquarters of …
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Democracy’s Dawn in Tunisia and Egypt?
With protests fading in Tunis and seeming to have peaked in Cairo, it is time to ask whether Tunisia and Egypt will complete democratic transitions. I have been visiting …
Schwarzenegger and Dominique Strauss-Kahn: When Powerful Men Cross Lines
The week’s news about the sexual conduct of politically powerful men gives me a queasy feeling of déjà vu. As the French agonize over whether Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s …