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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Expiring Warrantless Spy Bill to Be Reauthorized by Year's End
U.S. spies can rest easy knowing that the nation's warrantless wiretapping program won't expire at year's end.
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Michigan’s Anti-Union Legislation: Brought to You by the Koch Brothers and ALEC
Michigan’s right-to-work law is a Koch brothers and ALEC-style model bill in action.
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HSBC is the New Poster Child for Our Two-Tiered Justice System
The U.S. is the world's largest prison state. But not everyone is subjected to that system of penal harshness.
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Your Public Bus Conversations Are Being Recorded
Transit authorities in cities across the country are quietly installing microphone-enabled surveillance systems on public buses.
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Nuclear Testing Continues Despite U.S. Promises, World Yawns
The U.S. has conducted a nuclear weapons test, a violation of the test ban treaty.
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5 Enemies of a Decent Middle Class Existence in the U.S.
Conservatives and the wealthy have taught too many Americans to hate their own government and not the parasite industries destroying the middle class.
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Chronicle of a Mexico Without a President
In Mexico, December 1, 2012, will be remembered as the day that an imposition was legitimized.
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How the Feds Let Industry Pollute the Nation's Water Supply
Federal officials have given energy and mining companies permission to pollute aquifers in more than 1,500 locations across the country.
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Climate Change and the Unrestrained Elite
Neoliberalism is not the root of the problem: it is the ideology used to justify a global grab of power, public assets and natural resources by an unrestrained elite.
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Employee-Owned Businesses Ignored by Mainstream Media
A bold new threat to the economic status quo brings on a press blackout.
