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Drug Lobby Gave $9.4 million to Nonprofits That Spent Big on 2010 Election
The drug lobby's trade association was a multimillion-dollar donor to nonprofit groups that were actively working to elect federal candidates during the 2010 election, an iWatch News analysis of …
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Graph: Republican Hyper-Partisanship and the Hyper-Polarization Of Congress
Announcing her intention to retire yesterday, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) decried the “atmosphere of polarization” that she finds “frustrating.” While Snowe didn’t assign responsibility for the current climate of …
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Are Bankers Capitalists?
The phrase “Wall Street” is evocative in American culture. For generations, it has referred to the showcase of American capitalism: our financial services system that ensured the efficient use …
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Witnessing the Death of the Republican Party
A week ago, Rick Santorum looked as though he might give Mitt Romney a thrashing in the Michigan primary, which would have unleashed a wave of grim assessments of …
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Bye Bye American Pie: The Challenge of the Productivity Revolution
Here’s the good news. The economic pie is growing again. Growth in the 4th quarter last year hit 3 percent on an annualized rate. That’s respectable – although still …
Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell on Star Wars’ Mythological Influences
Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell on Star Wars from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.
Rachel Maddow | Republicans Veer Right Alienating Party Moderates (2)
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Auto Industry
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Heartland Institute: A Manifestation of the Kochtopus Empire
(Photo: Eric Thayer / The New York Times) It is nearly impossible to discuss the vast climate change denial echo chamber and not mention the Koch Brothers, …
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The Opposite of Snobbery
Say what you will about this era's Republican presidential candidates; they at least have chutzpah. Millionaire blue-blood George W. Bush pretended to be a down-home cowboy. Two-time divorcee and …