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George McGovern, Unabashed Liberal Voice, Dies
The outspoken critic against Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars and 1972 Presidential candidate dies at 90.
Mitt Romney’s Bailout Bonanza: How He Made Millions From the Rescue of Detroit
Mitt Romney made some $15 million on the auto bailout and that three of Romneyu2019s top donors made more than $4 billion for their hedge funds from the bailout.
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How Obama Can Smoke Out Mitt: Call for Breaking Up the Biggest Banks, and Resurrecting Glass-Steagall
Want to out Mitt Romney as a instrument of Wall Street? Robert Reich asks President Obama to reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act.
What Senator George McGovern Got Right
Just for kicks we could change it up this time and cut taxes on working people rather than the rich. I bet voters would just hate that!
Presidential Debate Number Two: No Serious Solutions Offered
Gerald Epstein: Romney's tough talk on China is pure campaign rhetoric and his tax math is nonsense; Obama didn't talk about poverty, climate change, financial regulation, and low wages.
Expanding the Debate With Third Party Candidates Jill Stein, Virgil Goode and Rocky Anderson
Today we expand the debate by including the voices of three presidential candidates shut out of the official debate.
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Five Points Obama Must Address Tonight
Your passive performance in the last debate was damaging because it reenforced the Republican claim that youu2019ve been too passive in getting jobs back and in responding to terrorism …
Election Countdown 2012: TransCanada Files SLAPP Suit Against Winnsboro Tree Blockaders, and More
Today in the Election Countdown: TransCanada files SLAPP suit against Winnsboro tree blockaders in Texas; In Illinois, U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s campaign finances are the subject of a …
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Arlen Specter, Longtime GOP Senate Moderate, Dies at 82
Specter, the irascible senator from Pennsylvania, was at the center of many of the Senateu2019s most divisive legal battles.