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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On the Take: Private Prison Firms Are Buying Access to Public Officials at Lavish Conferences
Private corrections companies are spending millions of dollars
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A Call to Develop a Worker Cooperative Sector in New York City
How the city can create jobs and address inequality at its roots.
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Why Social Transformation Is a Lot Closer Than You May Realize
By understanding the current stage of our social movement's development, we can better define the work that must be done to achieve success and predict how the power structure and public will react to our actions.
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Fannie Mae Evicts Family in Foreclosure, Then Installs Armed Guards
Since January, Fannie Mae has spent nearly $50,000 of what is essentially public money to keep one home empty.
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America's Three-Tiered Justice System
Big shots are above the law, the government now admits, but a three-tiered justice system has Congress churning out new bills to keep the prison industry booming.
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Getting Cooperative in the New Economy
While Wall Street banks are on a trend of corporate mergers and acquisitions, Main Street businesses are generating community wealth while undergoing a transition of their own.
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Tar Sands Resistance Escalates in Massachusetts
Ahead of a national week of actions against the Keystone XL pipeline, activists in Massachusetts turned up the heat early with 26 arrests on Monday.
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The Security Surveillance State on the Borderland
Fear, corporate profiteering and government expansion characterize the security surveillance state on the U.S. borderland.
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The Financial Instrument That Could Save the Economy - and Why It Hasn't
Quantitative easing doesn't actually increase the circulating money supply, it merely cleans up the toxic balance sheets of banks.
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Idle No More: From Grassroots to Global Movement
For First Nations people, Bill C-45 introduced last fall by the Harper government represents the culmination of hundreds of years of colonial attacks on indigenous sovereignty -- a sovereignty that is fundamentally tied to the use of treaty lands.
