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Are We in the Process of Creating a New and Enduring American Underclass?
Corporate America appears to be prospering with far fewer workers than it employed before the crash. Wages are down, the stock market is up and firms are expanding their …
Past Trade Agreements Have Cut Jobs, Wages and Democracy
President Barack Obama and President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea, after a joint press conference during the G20 summit in Seoul, South Korea, on November 11, 2010. As Obama …
Did The Cable Industry Pay Ralph Reed Millions of Dollars to Orchestrate Tea Party Opposition to Net Neutrality?
As the New York Times and ThinkProgress have reported, Ralph Reed has returned as a force in the political world. A decade ago, Reed was a kingmaker in Republican politics and a corporate lobbyist who …
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Wisconsin State Election Board Failed to Review Minutes From Waukesha County “Recount” Before Certifying Supreme Court Election Results
Last Monday, May 23rd, Wisconsin's Government Accountability Board (GAB), the state's top election agency, officially certified [PDF] the controversial results of the extraordinarily close April 5th statewide Supreme Court …
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“Death Squads” Target Salvadoran Journalists
Death threats targeting journalists were distressingly common during the tumultuous Salvadoran Civil War that took place in the late seventies and eighties. Over the course of the war, a …
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Confronting the System Through Taxation
IRS 1040 forms at a post office, April 14, 2011. (Photo: Steven Depolo) Each year, unknown thousands of law-abiding American citizens refuse to pay taxes, driven by …
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Latin America Progresses Forward – a Victory for Gay Rights
The Brazilian Supreme Court's recognition of same-sex unions in early May marks the latest victory for gay rights in Latin America. The Court's ruling grants equal legal rights to …
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The Media Is a Curable Disease
Rupert Murdoch, who got his start in business marketing rats and manure, has chosen to deny Italy access to a television network that has presented critical coverage of both …
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Doha Goes on Life Support
The impasse continues in the WTO's Doha negotiations, to the point that even the relentlessly optimistic Secretary General Pascal Lamy, after another deadline-driven search for concessions, admitted that there …
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Sixty More Days in Libya: Obama Does Bush Lawyers Proud
Now we know why Obama has gone to such outrageous lengths to keep Bush's lawyers out of prison, claiming powers of secrecy and immunity beyond Cheney's wildest dreams and …