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On Guns, Unfinished Business
As Jennifer Hudson and the children of Sandy Hook Elementary sang at the Superbowl this Sunday, we are reminded that there is unfinished business when it comes to gun …
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Court Ruling on Labor Board a Blow to Workers’ Rights
The recent overturn of Obama's appointments to the National Labor Relations Board means big money for corporations and less power for American citizens.
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From Arizona to Montana, Native Voters Struggle for Democracy
Leonard Gorman, head of the Navajo Nationu2019s Human Rights Commission, struggles to keep gerrymandering from crippling his people's right to democracy.
Forget About Fresno: How One California County Clerk Stopped Prop 37’s Oversight “Recount“
Lack of transparency and a liberal
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Whose Interests Are “Fiscal Watchdogs” Protecting?
“Can political leaders honestly be both ‘fiscal watchdog’ and 'helpful to business,'” asks Madeline Jarvis.
The American Lockdown State
The US has become a nation not of laws but of legal memos, not of legality but of legalisms.
Colin Powell: Conned or Con Man?
Ray McGovern: There is circumstantial evidence that Colin Powell was a willing co-conspirator in the push to invade Iraq.
US Retirement Funds Say BP Managers Repeatedly Lied About Safety Lapses
Recent Supreme Court decisions undermine investors' interests and risk allowing corporations to get away with misrepresentations to shareholders.
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Does American Exceptionalism Foster American Decline?
The chauvinistic definition of exceptionalism has become common in the rhetoric of politicians.
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God, Guns and the Sandy Hook Truthers: Vicious Backlash Politics
The way of life gun extremists purport to protect is on its last legs. They know it and it's making them crazy.