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As Candidates Vie for the “Anti-Establishment” Label, Real Establishment Lives On
There is a money establishment behind the political establishment, spending secretly in our elections, and they are playing the long game.
Who Is on President Obama’s Shortlist to Replace Antonin Scalia?
Analysts are projecting a tough road for the next nominee to the Supreme Court.
The Oregon Standoff and the ALEC-Backed Push to Put States in Control of Public Land
The Malheur refuge takeover masks a campaign to transfer federal land to Western states and open it to private developers.
Who Endorsed Hillary Clinton? The Congressional Black Caucus or Its PAC Filled With Lobbyists?
This week's endorsement of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for president by the Congressional Black Caucus political action committee prompted some confusion due to a lack of familiarity …
North Carolina Voting Rights Fight Moves From the Courtroom to the Streets
As the federal trial over restrictive voter ID law wrapped up, the NAACP shifted its fight.
IRS Allows Post-Citizens United Karl Rove Group to Continue Concealing Source of Donors
The Internal Revenue Service decided to grant “social welfare” tax-exempt status to Crossroads GPS.
Noam Chomsky | Notion of Elite Guardian Class Dates Back to Founding of US
Noam Chomsky discusses the historical embedding of an elite “guardian class” in US society going back to the framers of the Constitution.
Why Bernie Sanders Is Not George McGovern
Comparing the US in 2016 to the US in 1972 doesn't make a lot of sense.
Could Unelected Superdelegates Give Clinton the Nomination Even if Sanders Wins the Primaries?
Sander and Clinton split the delegates evenly thanks to unelected superdelegates siding with the former secretary of state.
How Sanders’s Grassroots Fundraising Is Defying the 2016 “Billionaire Primary”
Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign is raking in millions of individual small-dollar contributions.