The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Graduated and Living with Mom and Dad: An Infographic
Reasons to move back home after college.
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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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Mississippi County Jails Kids For School Dress Code Violations, Tardiness
In Meridian, Mississippi, it is school officials – not police – who determine who should be arrested.
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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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It’s the Interest, Stupid! Why Bankers Rule the World
A stunning 35% to 40% of everything we buy goes toward interest.
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Redistricting: Lawmakers Have Cloaked the Process in Secrecy
Calls for reform have gone largely unheeded as legislators manipulate Census numbers for partisan gain.
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"99%": The Film
What happens when growing economic inequality in America bears heavily on its people?
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Poem: No Fault Politics
Billionaires sit back as profits go sky high/big business cutting benefits, Americans barely getting by.
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Canadian Tar Sands Declared Illegal by Alberta Residents
Residents in Alberta say tar sands mining is not only dangerous but illegal because it violates the rights laid out in Treaty 8, an agreement signed in 1899 by Queen Victoria and various First Nations.
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Senator Bernie Sanders Calls for End to Polluter Welfare
The big winners of federal support are the already immensely profitable fossil fuel and nuclear industries, not sustainable energy. Independent Senator Bernie Sanders has introduced legislation to eliminate all subsidies to the oil, gas and coal industries.
