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Stop the Cruelest Cuts!
Republicans would rather pad the wallets of the wealthy elite than put food on the tables of America's most needy and vulnerable.
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Obamacare: The Biggest Insurance Scam in History
Health care is a human right, and it is at the center of the conflict of our times, the battle between the people and corporate interests.
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Republican War on Food Stamps: One Giant Lie
This Friday, the SNAP program will be slashed by $5 billion anyway, thanks to the expiration of the 2009 Recovery Act that increased funding to that program.
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North Carolina, Come On and Rise Up
"Moral Mondays" organizer and North Carolina AFL-CIO President James Andrews discusses the strategy behind escalating protests against the state's extremist Republicans.
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Mike Lofgren | The Revolt of the Lower Middle Class and the Stupidity of the Elites
Why do Tea Party adherents favor policies that are often directly counter to their economic interests?
Time to Resist the Republicans’ War on Government
While we continue to argue about the debt ceiling we need to be having real discussions about the role of government in the US and how the conservative right …
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US Invasion of Grenada: A 30-Year Retrospective
Thirty years later, Stephen Zunes takes us back through the Grenadian revolution and the aftermath of the U.S. invasion.
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Republicans Demand Social Security and Medicare Cuts: Is It Reported?
Is the media giving Americans the information they need in order to make informed decisions?
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Will Every State Eventually Expand Medicaid?
The question of whether red state Republicans' poor constituents are eventually covered under the lawu2019s Medicaid expansion may ultimately come down to state budget realities.
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Politicians’ Extortion Racket?
Some politicians are involved in a type of "legal extortion" to get their hands on cash, with terms like the "tollbooth" and "milker bills" describing some of these practices.