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Right-Wing Anti-Abortion Ferver Extends to Birth Control and More (Video)
Rachel Maddow reports on a movement to oppose the birth control pill that is finding some quarter in the broader big government conservative movement.
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Mitt Romney Enters Presidential Race
Stratham, New Hampshire - Mitt Romney, declaring “Barack Obama has failed America,” announced his candidacy for president Thursday by painting himself as a staunch conservative deeply committed to creating …
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Goldman Receives Subpoena Over Financial Crisis
Goldman Sachs has received a subpoena from the office of the Manhattan district attorney, which is investigating the investment bank’s role in the financial crisis, according to people with …
Gar Alperovitz: The Prehistory of the Next Possible Progressive Era
Gar Alperovitz. (Photo: Campaign for America's Future) At a time of acute pain for working people - when wages are stagnant, unemployment is high and levels of …
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Bill Moyers Interviews Andrew Bacevich
Andrew Bacevich on Bill Moyers Journal. (Photo: Bill Moyers Journal) Our finest warriors are often our most reluctant warmongers. They have seen firsthand the toll war …
Zombie Politics: Dangerous Authoritarianism or Shrinking Democracy – Part II
The zombie metaphor points dramatically to a kind of “mad agency that is power in a new form, death-in-life.”
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Our Forgotten Tradition
THE ‘S’ WORD: A SHORT HISTORY OF AN AMERICAN TRADITION… SOCIALISM by John Nichols Verso, 2011 Just when the confused and often deeply troubled relation …
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From American Conservatives, Voodoo Economics
About 80 percent of Dr. Rachel Chatters’s patients in Louisiana are on Medicaid. (Photo: Michael Stravato for the New York Times) So Representative Paul D. Ryan, the …
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Call for New Jersey Governor to Repay $65 Million to Carbon Fund
Last year New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie diverted an estimated $65 million from the state's Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) revenues to help balance a $10.7 billion budget. …
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US Special Inspector Gives Glowing Report on Afghan-Run Development Program
The Special Inspector General for the Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR,) established by Congress in 2008 to evaluate the efficiency of reconstruction programs in Afghanistan, has issued a glowing report on …