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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Cities in the Red: Austerity Hits America
The European debt crisis and the ensuing austerity-fueled chaos can seem to Americans like a distant battle that portends a dark future. Yet a closer look reveals that the future is already here.
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Tax Rates For America’s Wealthiest Fell In 2010
New data from the IRS shows that the effective tax rates for America’s top earners fell even lower in 2010.
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To Reduce Inequality, Tax Wealth — Not Income
Whether you’re in the 99 percent, the 47 percent or the 1 percent, inequality in America may threaten your future.
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership: What “Free Trade” Actually Means
“Free trade," as we know it, is a drain on the economy, creates enormous national debts and undermines labor. So why should we tolerate the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
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Pat Tillman’s Father: A Poem
Pat Tillman’s father is way out there/like a space rape kit, unexamined/unlistened to under the microscope.
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Off Our Computers and Into the Streets!
There are many innovations changing how we think about what online organizing is capable of - and building clear pathways to support offline, real-world actions.
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DHS to Double U.S. Drone Fleet
The Department of Homeland Security wants to more than double its fleet of Predator drones used to fly surveillance missions inside the United States, despite critical warnings that domestic drones pose a privacy danger to U.S. citizens.
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Black Friday at Walmart: #Occupied
Across the country, activists stood with underpaid Walmart workers on Black Friday.
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The Legacy of Occupy: Sticking It to Wall Street
To “occupy” Wall Street is no longer a policy demand, if it ever was. Extending democracy to Wall Street might be a better and bolder banner - with proposals for greater disclosure, accountability, regulation, a transactions tax and more.
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Divest! A Campaign Heats Up to Dump Fossil Fuel Funding
Modeled on the successful effort to get colleges, pension funds, churches, cities and states to divest from apartheid South Africa, groups are now asking ethical investors to freeze new investments in fossil fuel companies.
