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The Shriveling State of the Union
To hear his fifth State of Union address, an uninformed listener might think America's problems are limited and manageable.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: President Obama Delivered His State of the Union Address, and More
Last night, President Obama delivered his State of The Union address, and what we didn't hear is almost as important as what he said.
SOTU: President’s Base Opposes Fast Track for TPP
Corporate interests that fought the president's re-election are lobbying for him to use the speech to call on Congress to enact Fast Track authority for the TPP.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Americans Are Better Off Living in a Blue State, and More
By almost every measure, Americans are better off living in a Blue state, and more.
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Could a Rand Paul Candidacy Be the Best Thing Ever for Liberals?
Rand Paul has a very good shot at becoming the Republican nominee for president in 2016. So why is that such a good thing for Democrats and our nation? …
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Why Cory Booker Is Trying to Deep-Six Obama’s Historic Efforts at Peacemaking with Iran
The newly minted New Jersey senator has joined forces with the countryu2019s most reactionary forces in foreign policy.
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Is President Obama Too Democratic? Gates and Others Think So
Instead of revealing President Barack Obama as a weak and inadequate Commander-in-Chief, it appears that former Secretary of War Robert Gates' new book, “Memoirs of a Secretary of War,” …
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Where Is the Democrats’ Outrage?
Eugene Robinson: Shame on Republicans for blocking long-term unemployment benefits for 1.3 million Americans. And shame on Democrats for letting them.
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Henry A. Giroux | Reclaiming the Radical Imagination: Challenging Casino Capitalism’s Punishing Factories
Henry Giroux: Cultivating the radical imagination, civic education and critical modes of literacy are central to producing an informed citizenry, but even more so to constituting any viable notion …
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Lobbying for Iran War, AIPAC’s Napkin Is Half-Empty
Robert Naiman: Blowing up President Obama's diplomacy with Iran would be the foreign policy equivalent of repealing ObamaCare.