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Here Is What’s Happening at the Bain-Owned Auto Parts Manufacturer Sensata
Despite his rhetoric in the first presidential debate about getting
Will Bain-Linked E-Voting Machines Give Romney the White House?
Once again this election, much of the Ohio electorate will cast its ballots on machines owned by the Republican candidate's cronies.
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Obama’s Task Tuesday Night
He must offer not just history lessons and dire warnings, but a positive vision of the next four years.
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Campaigns Mine Personal Data to Get Out Vote
Campaigns buy data like voters' shopping histories, gambling tendencies, dating preferences and financial problems.
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Don’t Ask and Don’t Tell: Six Critical Foreign Policy Questions That Won’t Be Raised in the Presidential Debates
Since the first Presidential debate left the American people more than wanting, here are some real issues that should be addressed by both candidates
Enterprising Cities: Left, Right and Center
The basic principle at work in municipally owned real estate development is that appreciation of land should be turned to public advantage. In many communities, Community Land Trusts (CLTs) …
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Sherrod Brown’s Lessons for Obama
E.J. Dionne Jr.: If anyone can testify to the problem of giving really rich people a chance to tilt the political playing field, it's Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown.
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“Class” Used to Be a Dirty Word: Elections Point to New Paradigm
The 2012 presidential race is shaping up as a new kind of political fight being fairly openly fought around the issue of class and inequality with racial overtones.
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Robert Reich: The Politics of Fear and the Party of Non-Voters
It is not the Democrats or the Republicans who dominate this country, but the party of
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A Repeat of the 2000 Election Crisis Would Be a Disaster for American Democracy
A review of the 2000 election suggests we could again experience a crisis election with results which call the United Statesu2019 republican way of government into question and lead …