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“Dark Money And Our Looming Oligarchy”: At Some Point Soon, Untraceable ‘Dark...
There is something obscene in looking at the raw numbers, is there not? More than $500 million being spent on House races, and north of $300 million on Senate contests. A half-billion dollars! In the...
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“Trouble Behind The Lines”: Sam Brownback, A Mad Scientist Whose Lab Has...
The strangest thing about the battle for the Senate going on this year is how much trouble Republicans are having in states won by Mitt Romney, and not necessarily the ones where they expected trouble....
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“This Election’s Biggest Jokes”: ‘Republicans Are The Saviors Of Social...
The whole point of Republican rhetoric these days is to try to switch labels: that Democrats were responsible for the Great Depression, and that Republicans are responsible for all economic and social...
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“The 100 Rich People Who Run America”: The Ultra-Wealthy Have Taken Over The...
We are well past the point that anyone will be shocked or even surprised by how distorted our system of funding campaigns has become, but thanks to some excellent reporting by Ken Vogel at Politico, we...
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“What Donors Want”: They Helped Elect A New Class Of Congress Members; Now What?
When the 114th Congress convenes on Tuesday, lawmakers won’t merely be thinking of the voters who put them in office. They’ll also be mindful of the donors who helped them reach those voters in the...
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“GOP Thinks The 47 Percent Aren’t Trying Hard Enough”: News Flash,...
Remember the “47 percent”? During his 2012 campaign for the presidency, Mitt Romney was caught on tape describing nearly half the country in disparaging terms, labeling them moochers who want handouts....
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“Rand Paul’s Prevarication Problem”: Afflicting The Afflicted & Comforting...
Last week I called Sen. Rand Paul the most interesting man in Republican politics, and I still think that’s true. I also expressed some anxiety about the threat he could pose to the Democratic...
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“More Worried About Their Reputation”: Republicans Don’t Really Care About...
The Republican Party appears to accept that poverty and the inequities of wealth and political power that have prevailed over the last 15 years are issues it can no longer ignore. Not without paying a...
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“Voting Rights Should Not Precede Gun Rights”: Conservatives Would Let Felons...
It’s an idea so incredibly crazy it just might work: Restoring voting rights to non-violent felons—if they get back their right to own guns, too. For some tough-on-crime conservatives, the right to...
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“The GOP’s Scramble For The Stupid Vote”: Slumming For Support In The Fever...
Dinesh D’Souza is no one’s idea of a thoughtful participant in the nation’s public conversation. Still, his tweet on Wednesday morning may have set a new low for the right-wing rabble-rouser....
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“Remember At The Polls”: No One In Wisconsin Asked To Kill Unions Except...
It was the question no Republican in Wisconsin could answer. “What beating hearts are asking you to pass right to work legislation?” Senator Janet Bewley, a Democrat, put the simple query to the other...
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“This SCOTUS Destroyed America”: How Citizens United Is Ruining More Than Our...
In the years since conservative Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s landmark Citizens United v. FEC decision gave wealthy interests the political power they’d apparently lacked, the media has...
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“The GOP Gang Of Supremes Go After Obamacare”: This Lawsuit Was A Fraud From...
Look out — the Supreme Court’s black-robed gang of far-right ideologues is rampaging again! The five-man clan is firing potshots at Obamacare — and their political recklessness endangers justice, the...
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“Separating Fact From Advocacy”: How The Media Enable The Anti-Worker Movement
NPR Morning Edition aired a report this week that reeked of anti-union bias, and inadvertently promoted the Koch brothers’ agenda to reduce collective bargaining rights, which means smaller wages and...
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“The Right’s Word-Deed Problem”: Republicans Rely On All Sorts Of Magic...
Briefly, there seemed a chance we might have a cross-party discussion of the biggest economic problem the country faces: the vexing intersection of wage stagnation, declining social mobility and rising...
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“Libertarian-ish, Not A Libertarian”: Rand Paul Becomes Less Of A Libertarian...
On Tuesday in Louisville, Kentucky, Senator Rand Paul will officially kick off his campaign for president. As the New York Times reported Monday, his father, former Congressman Ron Paul, will be right...
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“Heightening Inequality To Even More Astronomical Levels”: If Inequality...
You can tell things have gotten very bad when the issue of economic inequality — a serious national problem mostly ignored for more than three decades — is suddenly in political vogue. And you can be...
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“Koch Brothers Eye 2016 Favorite”: David Koch Talked About The Wisconsin...
Presidential candidates are always eager to earn support from voters, but with nine months remaining until anyone casts a primary ballot, White House hopefuls have a slightly different focus at this...
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“The Sheldon Adelson Primary”: The GOP Presidential Primary; A Brawl Of...
There are few spectacles more absurd or horrifying (depending on your perspective) than a group of political leaders who want to be president of the United States trooping to the lair of a billionaire...
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“Sheldon Adelson Will Not Be Ignored”: He May Have Built A Lot Of Casinos,...
Sheldon Adelson has never struck me as a brilliant guy, but I admit I don’t have much to go on in making that judgment. Maybe it’s the spectacularly ridiculous dyed-red combover that makes him seem...
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