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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Mexico: U.S. Is Polluting Water It May Someday Need to Drink
Mexico City's plans to tap its newly discovered aquifer suggest that America is poisoning deep-located wells it might need in the future.
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New ALEC Law Makes Reporting Factory Farm Abuse an "Act of Terrorism"
New Hampshire, Wyoming and Nebraska are the latest states to introduce Ag-Gag laws aimed at preventing employees, journalists or activists from exposing illegal or unethical practices on factory farms.
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Obama's Pick for SEC Head Puts Fox in Charge of the Hen House
Mary Jo White is a perfect symbol of the revolving-door culture: where regulators go soft on suspected Wall Street criminals, knowing they have million-dollar jobs waiting for them at hotshot defense firms as long as they play nice in office.
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In Maine, 1,000 Rally Against Exxon Tar Sands Pipeline
In the largest protest in the Northeast against tar sands, massive crowds from Maine, New England and Canada marched across Portland opposing the 236-mile long, 62-year-old Exxon/Enbridge pipeline.
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Hacktivism: Civil Disobedience or Cyber Crime?
As Aaron Swartz’s and other “hacktivist” cases demonstrate, you don’t have to be a hacker to be viewed as one under federal law.
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Occupy Suburbia: Where the Battle of Ideas Must Be Won
Voters' rejection of Tea Party policies signaled an opening for a different narrative to become cemented in the suburban political mind.
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Apple Is Hiding Billions Of Dollars From the IRS
Technology giant Apple shuttled $11 billion into offshore tax havens in the fourth quarter of 2012.
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Virginia GOP Jumps on the Deform-the-Electoral-Vote Bandwagon
Republicans know America doesn't support them, so now they're looking to count less of America.
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LIAR!LIAR!LIAR: A Poem
So we vote for the best of the worst, and stand by/to see more of our rights signed away. Say "bye bye."
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How to Raise the Minimum Wage, Improve the Workforce - and Afford It
Three ways to raise the minimum wage.
