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Equal Pay for Equal Work
For 10 years, Lilly Ledbetter fought to close the gap between women’s and men’s wages, sparring with the Supreme Court, lobbying Capitol Hill in a historic discrimination case against Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. Ledbetter won a jury verdict of more than $3...
Expose Keystone XL
America is being sucker punched. If Keystone XL is approved, the Koch Brothers stand to make $100 billion while the USA is left out in the cold. That's because oil transported by this pipeline would go through our country, only to be exported worldwide. This is a...
LIVE: 2014 State of the Union Address
Live from the Capitol in Washington, D.C., President Obama delivers the 2014 State of the Union address. Learn more about all the ways to engage with the White House around the State of the Union at http://www.whitehouse.gov/sotu...
6 Ways Extreme Income Inequality Is Making Your Life Worse
BY IGOR VOLSKY President Barack Obama will focus on what he has described as “the defining challenge of our time” during the State of the Union address on Tuesday: the nation’s growing gap between the rich and poor. What economists saw as a temporary aberration in the...
Democrats Retake Control of Virginia State Senate
VIRGINIA BEACH — State Del. Lynwood W. Lewis Jr. has won the recount for a Hampton Roads Senate seat, throwing control of the Virginia Senate to Democrats and giving Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s first-year agenda a crucial boost.Lewis’s slim lead over Republican Wayne...
Stop The #TPP
The corporate and political leaders of the Pacific Rim nations are meeting in cities across America such as Chicago, Dallas, San Diego, and Leesburg to turn the Pacific Ocean and its peoples into a giant privatized corporate lake characterized by non-union workers,...
GOP’s 2014 horror strategy: Exploit Americans’ misfortune, drum up fake outrage
Prepare for them to search high and low for people disappointed with Obamacare -- then pretend to share their pain By BRIAN BEUTLER In the least shocking news you’ll hear all year, Republicans lack both the intent and ability to adopt a less combative approach to...
The News Just Keeps Getting Worse For West Virginia
By Mary Anne Hitt We know the coal industry is getting away with poisoning our waterways nationwide, and a new study of federal data by the Associated Press shows just that. Coal industry chemicals and waste "have tainted hundreds of waterways and groundwater...
Part Three: Neil deGrasse Tyson on Science Literacy
http://vimeo.com/84931906 Bill Moyers and Neil deGrasse Tyson discuss why science literacy is important for the future of our democracy, economy and standing in the world: “Science literacy is an inoculation against charlatans who would exploit your ignorance...
Let’s try emotional correctness
It's time for liberals and conservatives to transcend their political differences and really listen to each other, says political pundit Sally Kohn. In this optimistic talk, Kohn shares what she learned as a progressive lesbian talking head on Fox News....
