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Boehner Cancels Tax Vote in Face of GOP Revolt
Opponents said they were not about to bend their uncompromising principles on taxes just because Boehner asked.

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Being Safe?
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The Right’s “Limited Government” Scam
Tea Party Members might want to check their facts. Robert Perry writes that the real history is that Madison and Washington devised a Constitution with broad powers to promote …

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Five Signs 2013 Could Be a Great Year for Labor Organizing
Could 2013 be the year in which the U.S. becomes union strong again?

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An Appreciated, and Rare, Reversal of Economic Doctrine
Why do American businesses not feel that itu2019s worth their while to pay enough to attract the workers they say they need?

Zero Dark Thirty Won’t Settle the Torture Question or Purge Torture From the American System
If you look backward you see a nightmare. If you look forward you become the nightmare.

Economic Update: Conditions of the Working Class
Updates on Newtown, CT. school shooting, global warming and the CIA, Hostess abuses workers' pensions, and growing gap between CEOs' and workers' pay.

Thom Hartmann on the News: Michigan May Have Passed an Even More Undemocratic Law Than Right-to-Work
In this week's On the News Segment: For the second time in a week, a mass shooting has rocked the nation; right-to-work may not be the most undemocratic law …

Michigan Republicans Deny Police Officers and Firefighters the Right to Work
There is no issue of rights involved in this dispute.