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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Republican Jobs Bill Puts Forward More Tax Cuts for Millionaires, and More
In today's On the News Segment: House Republicans continue to slam Obama's jobs bill while offering a “poor substitute” in its place, the Supreme Court denied another one of …
How Georgia Works Gives Employers Free Labor at the Expense of the Unemployed
In his jobs proposal, President Obama called for a modification of unemployment insurance based on Georgia Works, a proposal the administration refers to as the “most innovative reform to …
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Between Race and Reason: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
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After Gutting Their Wages, Michigan GOP Senate Leader Says He Wants To Help Teachers With Right-To-Work Law
On Friday, Michigan Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville (R) announced that he would soon be introducing new legislation he is calling the “Freedom To Teach” bill. The legislation would …
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US Trade Policy: Moving Backward in the 21st Century
Three years into the Obama Administration, progressives have no shortage of complaints about the president’s economic policies, which seem very much at odds with Candidate Obama’s soaring rhetoric. Economic …
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New Documents Reveal FBI’s Islamophobic Counterterrorism Training
Counterterrorism agents at the FBI’s training center in Quantico, Virginia are being taught that “devout” Muslims are more likely to be “violent” and that American Muslims are likely to …
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The Party Line – Shaken, but Still Not Stirred
Sunday, September 11, will of course be the tenth anniversary of a tragedy that fundamentally changed America in ways we are still trying to understand. But this 9/11 is …
The Republican Weapon of Mass Cynicism
According to the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, 77 percent of Americans say they “feel things have gotten pretty seriously off on the wrong track” in this country. That’s …
Famine Ravages Somalia in a World Less Likely to Intervene
Dolo, Somalia - Is the world about to watch 750,000 Somalis starve to death? The United Nations’ warnings could not be clearer. A drought-induced famine is steadily creeping across …
Has American-Style Conservatism Become a Religion?
As the American right lurches from traditional conservatism – a go-slow approach to governing that stresses the importance of continuity and social stability – to a far more reactionary …