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Four Ways Romney and Ryan Would Roll Back the 20th Century
As Paul Ryan's budget plan threatens to drastically reduce public services, this election will decide the future of our welfare state
I Don’t Think You Really Have a Choice, Barack
“You see the Republican convention?” "I can't look at that. I'd get so upset." “It was worse than you think—like a Klan rally.” That little back and forth came …
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Eastwood
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Check and Mate
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Your Turn, Mr. President
have reached a phase of the presidential campaign that could be called the Season of Empty Metaphors.
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Never Mind Super PACs: How Big Business Is Buying the Election
Defending their new privilege of secret corporate electioneering, trade associations have bitterly opposed any attempts, postu2013Citizens United, at reform.
How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless and the Middle Class Got Shafted
Bill talks with Mike Lofgren, a long-time Republican who describes the modern dysfunction of both the Republican and Democratic parties.
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Election Countdown 2012: Protesters Gather in Charlotte for the Convention, and More
This week in the Election Countdown protesters are gathering in Charlotte;National media focus on but largely misunderstand what's happening in New Orleans; The fatal shootings of two apparently emotionally …
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Does Romney Think the Pentagon Needs More Marching Bands?
The rhetoric about cuts to the Pentagon's budget — which is five times larger than the next biggest defense spender, China, and about $100 billion more than then next …
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The People Behind the Parties – and the Democratic Party – at the DNC
This week in Charlotte, NC, not only will you have the u201cright to work,u201d youu2019ll also have the u201cright to party,u201d to borrow a portion of the namesake of …