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Through the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), corporations pay to bring state legislators to one place, sit them down for a sales pitch on policies that benefit the corporate …

(Photo: Richy / Flickr) Surveillance now is everyone's business, as the line between intelligence-gathering and crimefighting rapidly fades and the public is conditioned to play its part. …

Last month, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) became the first woman to win an influential Iowa Republican straw poll — a victory that would have been impossible before the many …

(Photo: The New York Times) Matt Yglesias, the political commentator, is mildly upset over a report that President Barack Obama is turning to the investor Warren E. …

Selina Sharmin, a librarian with the Queens Borough Public Library who was laid off because of budget cuts. (Photo: Marcus Yam / The New York Times) Last …

(Image: Rumur Inc.) Do we really accept that Big Money - through intimidation, bribery or some other coercion - can shove us out of our homes and …

Tonight a bevy of Republican presidential hopefuls hope to emerge as finalists. Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann will battle for the right-wing nut Tea Party finals. Mitt Romney and …

Sharing a debate stage for the first time, Republicans Rick Perry and Mitt Romney sparred Wednesday night in a series of testy exchanges over jobs, Social Security and the …

(Image: LP / Truthout; Adapted: Miguel Vieira, Expert Infantry) By every measure, the Pentagon is the largest institutional user of petroleum products and energy ... Yet, the …