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How the New Hampshire Rebellion will make corruption the #1 issue of 2016
by Cory Doctorow Brian sez, "Lawrence Lessig, former EFF board member, chair of the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, founder of the Center for Internet and Society, founding board member of Creative Commons, and former board member of the Free Software...
WHY Are American Health Care Costs So High?
By the incomparable John Green, who says the following about his sources: "For a much more thorough examination of health care expenses in America, I recommend this series at The Incidental Economist and The Commonwealth Fund's Study of Health Care Prices in the U.S....
15 Wins for the Progressive Movement in 2013
In politics, as in sports, you can’t win ‘em all. With a divided government and a House of Representatives firmly in the control of tea partiers, it was a tough year for progressives in Washington – one marked by the painful cuts of sequestration… More...
How ALEC Tramples Democracy
byLaura Clawson The American Legislative Exchange Council has been influencing policy for the worse for decades; with the news that ALEC is struggling to keep members and raise the big corporate money to which it's accustomed, let's review just what all that money...
Saint Ayn Rand Visits the Day After Christmas!
Are you ready for a visit from Saint Ayn Rand on the day after Christmas? With a million and a half people losing their unemployment benefits, there’ll be tough times ahead for all you “moochers.” But don’t worry, Rand Paul and crew are just trying to help you,...
Conservative Donors Pump $1 Billion A Year Into Climate Denying Groups
by Kiley Kroh Organizations that actively block efforts to address climate change are funded by a large network of conservative donors to the tune of nearly $1 billion a year, according to the first in-depth study into the dark money that fuels the denial effort....
Obenshain to Concede AG Race to Herring
UPDATE: RICHMOND — State Sen. Mark D. Obenshain (R) conceded the race for Virginia attorney general to Democrat Mark R. Herring on Wednesday, saying his “vigorous and hard-fought fight” is over. Obenshain’s announcement put an end to a drawn-out contest that, on...
The End Game for Democracy
There's so much truth here — it's the kind of thing that needs to be blasted across the front page of every newspaper and news website across the land. But there's a reason that won't happen... http://youtu.be/pFYb4gKEFl4
Tea Party Tim and Plutocrat Pete
Economic equality is indeed the struggle of our age
"All labor has worth," said Martin Luther King, Jr., in one of the last speeches he ever gave. "It is a crime for people to live in this rich nation and receive starvation wages. Now our struggle is for genuine equality, which means economic equality. If we are going...
