Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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Letter from a College Student: Occupy Remains Underdeveloped
The Occupy Movement's inspiring intentions are moving and worth starting a revolution for, but their calls to change have fallen on deaf ears of the majority of those who fall under the 99%.
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The School-to-Prison Pipeline Gets Its First-Ever Airing in the Senate
After years of aggressive agitating and advocacy, the topic is finally inching its way into the limelight.
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Five Signs 2013 Could Be a Great Year for Labor Organizing
2012 was an exciting year for organized labor as well as worker’s rights, generating a lot of excitement that 2013 could hold even more.
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Why Curbing the Climate Crisis Will Take More Than Summits and Divestment
Targeting the fossil fuel industry is essential, but divestment as the target for action raises the same question as global summitry does: Is it enough?
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After Recession, More Young Adults Are Living on the Street
Across the country, tens of thousands of underemployed and jobless young people, many with college credits or work histories, are struggling to house themselves in the wake of the recession.
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The Right to Know
The answer, we believe, is to crowd-fund transparency, making it easy and relatively anonymous for the public to support the best watchdogs in one place.
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Bombing North Dakota: What It's Like to Live Amid the Oil Boom
The oil rush in North Dakota has turned life there inside out.
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A Constitutional Case Against Felony Voter Disenfranchisement Laws
Obama’s recent court victory on early voting may have carved a legal path for fighting down felony disenfranchisement laws.
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NYPD for Hire: How Uniformed New York Cops Moonlight for Banks
No one begrudges an officer doing security work in his own time, but the Paid Detail Unit creates worrying conflicts of interest.
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Argument to Raise the Minimum Wage, Part I
At the heart of the poverty challenge lies the controversial concept of the minimum wage.
