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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Senate Leaders Reached a Deal Monday to End the Economic Standoff, and More
Monday evening, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell negotiated a deal to end the economic standoff.
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Edward Snowden’s Brave Integrity
President Obama says he welcomes the debate on post-9/11 surveillance of Americans and the world, but that debate was only made meaningful by the disclosures of NSA whistleblower Edward …
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Don’t Kick the Can Down the Road
A ‘deal’ that kicks the can down the road means the ongoing economic harm just keeps harming for the next few months, and then maybe gets worse.
Judge Recants Own Decision on GOP Polling Place Photo ID Law Later Upheld by SCOTUS
The 7th circuit court judge who wrote the majority opinion in the landmark Crawford v. Marion County Election Board case, has now admitted he got it wrong!
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US Suspends More Military Aid to Egypt, Arousing Skepticism
The Obama administration announced Wednesday it was freezing hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the Egyptian military pending u201ccredible progressu201d toward a return to democratic rule.
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Netanyahu’s Scheme for Palestine
This geopolitical line dance ignores Netanyahuu2019s stomping on the Palestinians, as Max Blumenthal tells Dennis J Bernstein.
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The Right’s Obamacare Rhetoric Is Completely Detached From Reality
The old saying that u2018you're welcome to your own opinions but not your own facts' seems quaint in today's political environment.
The Demise of the Left (and How to Revive it)
Although most polls indicate that Americans are putting the blame on Republicans for the government shutdown in terms of actual politics, the Republicans are winning. The debt ceiling is …
Bullying and the Power of Pity
Pity is a powerful tool. And President Obama wields it with mightu2014saying recently that the Republicans are just u201ctrying to mess with meu201du2014in his ongoing Iu2019m-the-good-guy posturing with a …
Ali: “You Must Listen to Me”
From March 1967 to October 1970, Muhammad Ali lived in America the Beautiful, not as a free man, but as the embodiment of Baldwinu2019s declaration in 1972.