How the Billionaire Class is Destroying Democracy

The billions in taxpayer subsidies for Big Oil, trillions in bailouts and bonuses for Wall Street banksters, and hundreds of billions for war profiteers are always accompanied by demands for more tax cuts at the top.

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False Bargain: Twenty Years On, Lessons from NAFTA

Eliminating tariffs and trade barriers, NAFTA opened the floodgates to an unrestricted movement of goods across borders. Twenty years later, can we learn from the mistakes?

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A Year After SOPA: The Next Five Battles for Internet Freedom

A year ago, millions of people flooded Congress with emails and phone calls demanding it drop the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. That battle was successful. Now, five big new fights loom on the horizon in 2013.

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"The Untouchables": How Obama Let the Bankers Get Away Free

A new PBS Frontline program, "The Untouchables," centers on the Obama justice department's failure to make a single arrest or prosecution of senior-level Wall Street bankers whose crimes and fraud took down the economy.

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Wildcat Winter: How the Walmart Labor Struggle is Going Global

The 2.1 million Walmart workers constitute the third-largest workforce in the world, following the U.S. Department of Defense and the People’s Liberation Army of China. And they are revolting.

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The Roadmap: Six Issues that America Needs to Solve

Here are a half dozen issues of primary importance to America's future that must be solved: Campaign Finance, the Revolving Door, the Consolidation of Media, Gerrymandering, Election Fraud and Open Debates.

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TSA to Remove Harmful, Invasive X-Ray Body Scanners from Airports

The TSA glossed over the cancer risk posed by even the low doses of radiation emitted by X-ray scanners, while the FDA went against its own advisory panel that recommended a federal safety standard for the machines.

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Report: Andean Glaciers Melting at "Unprecedented" Rates

Climate change has shrunk Andean glaciers between 30 and 50 percent since the 1970s and could melt many of them away altogether in coming years, according to a study published on Tuesday in the journal Cryosphere.

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Graduated and Living with Mom and Dad: An Infographic

Reasons to move back home after college.

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How Dangerous Has the NSA Become?

We think we're protected by the First and the Fourth Amendments. But we are spied upon to a stunning degree, with the U.S. government intercepting a reported 1.7 billion messages a day from American citizens.

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