The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Ridiculing the Corrupt Is Big Hit In UK Comedy Show "The Revolution Will Be Televised"
This is no ordinary TV show.
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Is Washington Feeling the Stirrings of A Mainstream Populist Movement?
Populism, by definition, doesn’t trickle down from the top but spreads as a bottom up movement that elevates its own leaders. And we’ve only begun, as Elizabeth Warren illustrates, to debate Wall Street, big banks and the casino economy.
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From France to Ethiopia, A Global Fight Grows Against Ivory and Illegal Poaching
“We must work and work and work towards ending the unnecessary killing of elephants for their tusks and ivory because it is destroying the natural wildlife and landscape that makes this part of the world so amazing and beautiful."
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This Christmas, Demand for Food Stamps Soars as Cuts Sink In and Shelves Empty
More working Americans are lining up at emergency food banks and going hungry as cuts to programs take effect.
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Edward Snowden Declares "Mission Accomplished," Reflects on NSA Revelations
“I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself."
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Talking Trash and Climate Crisis: A Conversation with Chicago's Garbage Guru
Elise Zelechowski, executive director of the ReBuilding Exchange, on the need to rethink the waste stream, the economic and environmental impacts of creative reuse, and how making trash visible is key to making it manageable.
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End the FED! (ATL)
On December 23 America’s private banking cartel known as the Federal Reserve turns 100 years old and We the People have a simple message: Reform or Retire.
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Going Postal on Pensions: Why We Must Protect Our Public Assets
Last week a federal judge overrode the Michigan state constitution, ruling that Detroit’s pension obligations aren't protected from creditors in its bankruptcy while upholding Congressional protections for Wall Street derivatives traders.
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I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System
As an assistant district attorney, I found myself prosecuting people of color for things white kids did with impunity.
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Poem: Why Worship the Rich?
If you follow the money, it's not hard you see / The rich couldn't care less about you and me.
