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Arizona Republicans Continue Support for Unconstitutional Citizenship Measures
Arizona Republican Russell Pearce, architect of the infamous SB 1070, is getting the old team back together for another effort to exclude undocumented immigrants from his state - Pearce …
Airline Profits Soar, Leaving Passengers Sour and Employees Sore
Wall Street is jumping up and down because airlines are making money again - big money. The nine largest US passenger airlines posted a cumulative net income of $1.45 …
Campaign Cash: Harry Reid Under Siege by Swift Boat Billionaire Bob Perry
Remember that horrible 2004 Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ad that helped derail John Kerry's 2004 presidential bid? Well, Bob Perry, the billionaire tycoon who financed that smear campaign …
Robert Scheer | The High Price of Patriotism
It's over for the U.S. in Afghanistan, but that doesn't mean the death and destruction are about to stop. Quagmires don't just go away. The signs are everywhere, however, …
Freedom From Precedent
Supreme Court Justices Kennedy, Thomas, Scalia, Alito and Roberts.
Joe Conason | The Rise of Sewer Money
In New York, there is a traditional name for the kind of anonymous cash now cascading into the American electoral process. It's called sewer money. Political observers in the …
Marine Toxicologist Riki Ott on the BP Oil Spill and Its Long-Term Effects
Rose Aguilar spoke with Riki Ott on the sixth-month anniversary of the BP oil disaster -one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history.
Ira Chernus | US Can Put the Squeeze on Israel
Israel can do whatever it damn pleases, and the Obama administration will never say no — or so the common wisdom goes. But it ain't so. Obama has backed …
China Starts Talking Tough – but Offers Empty Warnings
Chinese officials are making increasingly frantic and bizarre statements in response to growing criticism of China’s currency policy. At a speech in Brussels on Oct. 6, Prime Minister Wen …
The New Democrats: The Coalition Pharma and Wall Street Love
As Congress entered the final weeks of its struggle to overhaul regulation of Wall Street in May, several hundred friends and colleagues slipped out of Washington for a private …