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School Board Candidates Backed by Koch-Connected Nonprofit
The advertisement ran just less than a month before the race for school board in Douglas County, Colo. “Liberals are fighting school choice in Douglas County,” the announcer intoned. …
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Rick Perry Killed an Innocent Man
Newly uncovered evidence suggests that Willingham, who maintained his innocence until his death, was in fact an innocent man.
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Conservatives Offer Americans Empty Stomachs and Empty Rhetoric
Paul Ryan says that “the left” is offering Americans “a full stomach and an empty soul.” The truth is that conservatives like Paul Ryan are offering Americans empty stomachs …
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Dahr Jamail | New Mexico: Where Polluting Groundwater Is Legal
New Mexico's governor has given the copper industry carte blanche to pollute what is left of the state's groundwater.
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America’s “Bloodless” Civil War
In the US we have our own ongoing civil war between govenment and rebels - supported by rich warlords - who are armed but, so far, have only targeted …
Senate Race-Baiting? Dems Join GOP to Block Obama DOJ Pick Tied to Legal Defense of Mumia Abu-Jamal
In a stunning vote, a group of US Senate Democrats has broken ranks to join Republicans in rejecting President Obama's pick to head the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, …
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William Rivers Pitt | Worse Than the Mob: The Insurance Industry Is Organized Crime
William Rivers Pitt: Abandoning the concept of single-payer health care is the Original Sin of the Affordable Care Act.
Colonized Minds: Anti-Gay Laws in Arizona, Kansas, Uganda and Beyond
Arizona and Uganda are nine thousand miles apart, but they were side by side in the news this week, due to extremist anti-gay laws that spring from and are …
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President Obama, the Do-Gooder
Dean Baker: While there are limits as to what Obama can do based on executive authority alone, there are many areas where he can have an impact.
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Oklahoma Legislators Declare War on Working Poor
It's official: Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin and Republicans in the Oklahoma Legislature don't care about the working poor or their children.