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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Austerity Takes the Stage in London
Playwright and activist Anders Lustgarten's new play, opening February 20 at the Royal Court Theatre in London, explodes the ethos of austerity, examining the shock treatment issued by the financial world.
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Refugees Demanding Rights Continue 4-Month-Long Occupation in Berlin
Dozens of refugees have been occupying a central square in Berlin's bustling Kreuzberg district since October, as part of a growing nationwide movement to abolish refugee camps and end deportations of asylum seekers from Germany.
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Poem: W! T! F!
WTF's happened, in the land of the free? The rich getting richer, sea to shining sea.
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Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail
How HSBC hooked up with drug traffickers and terrorists and got away with it.
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Florida’s School-to-Prison Pipeline is Largest in the Nation
More than in any other state, students in Florida are being arrested for incidents that once would have merited a trip to the principal's office.
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Facebook Paid No Corporate Income Tax Last Year After Making More Than $1 Billion
Between 2008 and 2011, 26 major corporations were able to pay no federal corporate income tax.
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35,000 Say to An Audience of One: "No Keystone XL"
"The first thing that the pipeline runs over is the credibility of the president of the United States," said former White House green jobs czar Van Jones.
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Incomes Flat in Recovery, but Not for the 1%
New data show uneven benefits from the economic recovery of 2010-11, with a big rise for the highest earners and little change for others.
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Student Issues, Student Power: Whose Future? Our Future!
As U.S. student activism remains strikingly dormant and fragmented, campus organizers are grappling to find the means to mobilize their peers into movements large enough to effect change.
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Pricing the Carbon: Senators Boxer and Sanders Introduce New Climate Legislation
The new bill, which is the first since cap and trade failed to pass the Senate in 2009, would put a $20/ton fee on carbon, raising trillions of dollars to offset impacts on consumers and create new investment in renewable energy sources.
