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The 12-member Super Committee is down to its final two weeks to produce a plan to cut at least $1.2 trillion from the federal budget. According to recent reports, …

As ThinkProgress reported yesterday, Republican members of Congress have been waging a war to open 1 million acres around the Grand Canyon to uranium mining. Last week Secretary of …

After an Election Day that saw a number of wins for progressive causes nationwide, activists opposed to “corporate personhood” — the notion that corporations have equal rights to individuals …

In his presidential farewell address, George Washington offered this warning to the young nation: "Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence…the jealousy of a free people ought to be …

Yesterday, Ohio voters overwhelmingly rejected the effort to revoke basic worker rights, delivering a stunning rebuke to conservative Gov. John Kasich. That spark was lit in Madison, Wisconsin last …

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As a kid, Matt Taibbi’s favorite writer was Nikolai Gogol. So, straight out of college, Taibbi headed to Russia, where he spent ten years playing baseball in …

While San Francisco elections were largely anti-climactic, across the country voters rejected en masse the right-wing Tea Party politics that have plagued national politics. Nowhere was it more obvious …

Here's a surprise that the power elites really hate to see: Many members of the 1 percent are joining the “We are the 99 percent” movement in various Occupy …

Long-standing efforts to increase the number of low-income voters have been paying off. Several voting rights groups point to data from the federal Election Assistance Commission that …