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Michigan, Nation Must Look at North Carolina’s “Moral Mondays“
Moral Mondays, spreading rapidly to other states, aim to help ordinary citizens take back their state governments from corporate-backed extremists.
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Why Elections Still Matter, Except When They Don’t
Why bother with an electoral process that's compromised from top to bottom, a maze full of dead ends, trap doors, toll booths, and rules that change at the whim …
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Paul Krugman | A Delusional Search for Reasonable Republicans
If former Treasury secretary Hank Paulson believes that he can support Republicans while still pushing for climate action, he's delusional.
The Shifting, Double-edged Sword called ‘Populism’
Hell or high water, the protean, populist clamor sets disparate ordinary people against variously infamous foes.
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Why Harris and Hobby Lobby Spell Disaster for Working Women
Retail sales and home healthcare work are two of the three fastest-growing jobs in this country. That's an important consideration when looking at the Supreme Court's Harris and Hobby …
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One Party Is United, the Other, Divided
The Democratic coalition isn't fragile, while the Republican coalition is.
The State of Voting in 2014
As we approach the 2014 election, the United States is still in the midst of a high-pitched and often highly partisan battle over voting rights.
The Ultra-Right-Wing State Nobody Mentions
Quick! Name the state that's been ground zero for all issues ultra-conservative. It's not Texas or Arizona...
Fannie Lou Hamer and the Racist Dixiecrats
Bob Moses describes how in 1874 the white racist Democratic Party violently overthrew the Governor of Mississippi (who had been elected by a mostly black Republican Party), and how …
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Meet the Groups Fighting Against Limits on Restraining School Kids
Republicans say it is a matter of states' rights.