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Subsidized Foreign Steel is Ruining the U.S. Industry

Congress must enforce trade law to save American steel.

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How We Can Save American Democracy

Amending the Constitution may sound audacious, but it's not impossible.

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Message to ‘Moral Mondays’ Protesters: Be Silent—Or Else

North Carolina residents are being denied First Amendment rights.

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Just How Big Are CEOs’ Packages?

For the first time, corporations must calculate the difference between CEO pay and median worker pay.

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A Bipartisan Alliance That’s True As Steel

Dumped steel from abroad threatens thousands of American jobs.

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GOP Takes Aim at Obamacare Once Again

Republicans have distorted facts to fuel their assault on a favorite target.

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What the GOP and Donald Sterling Have in Common

Republicans treat low-wage workers like three-fifths people.

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Dying for the Job

When employers put efficiency and profit over safety, it's their workers who suffer.

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Why the GOP Really Fears Minimum-Wage Hikes

It comes down to a deep disrespect for the workers who make the country run.

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Republicans Root for the Villain

Paul Ryan's new budget steals from the poor and gives to the rich.

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The McCutcheon Ruling Is Citizens United 2.0

The Supreme Court's decision to remove caps on personal political campaign contributions will tighten the 1% stranglehold on American politics.

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Our Plutocracy Problem

When the 1% and politicians join forces, democracy loses.

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Expand Overtime Pay? GOP Says No

Republicans apparently don't believe that Americans who work longer hours should get paid more.

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Is Obama’s Budget Really ‘Dead on Arrival’?

Republicans like Darrell Issa don't want to engage in debate, they want to stifle it.

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The GOP’s Attack on Basic Rights Continues

Over the last several weeks, Republicans have proposed—and sometimes passed—legislation limiting the civil liberties of some citizens.

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The Billionaires’ Scheme to Destroy Democracy

The 1% are advocating a campaign for a one-dollar-one-vote plutocracy.

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The GOP’s Fight Against Medicaid

4.4 million more Americans than last year have health insurance—no thanks to Republicans.

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When the Boss Wants a Union, But the GOP Says ‘No’

Volkswagen is willing to let employees at its Tennessee plant unionize, but Republicans are stiff in their opposition.

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Northwestern Football Team Makes a Play To Change The Rules

With a historic union bid, players are confronting decades of exploitation.

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The Gap Between Rich and Poor, Accidentally Explained by Bob McDonnell

The scandal shows inequality is not just a slip of some invisible hand of the market.

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Corporate America Poisons West Virginia

How right-wing deregulation led to toxic water for 300,000 people.

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NAFTA’s Trail of Destruction

Twenty years after NAFTA, income inequality and the trade deficit have skyrocketed.

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Republicans Offer Up a Raw Deal for Christmas

The GOP wants to give corporations bonuses and put the unemployed out in the cold.

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The Pledge of Corporate Allegiance?

Leaks reveal that corporate front group ALEC may ask for loyalty oaths from legislators.

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American Workers: From Bounty to Bleakness

This Thanksgiving, many American workers won't share in the bounty they helped create.

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Actually, Republicans Don’t Believe in Corporate Freedom

The GOP has jumped in to stop companies from letting their workers unionize.

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Republicans Suddenly Love Obamacare

In a change of heart, Republicans are now outraged over the slow progress of the Affordable Care Act.

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It’s Not Safe Out There

Weak laws and an understaffed OSHA leave workers vulnerable and voiceless

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Ending Million-Dollar Pay Packages, Papal-Style

Let the Pope's suspension of a bishop for spending millions on lavish renovations be a lesson to America's CEOs.

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Shooting America in the Foot

Republicans wounded the country--and their party--with their failed gambit to defund the Affordable Care Act.

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Why the Tea Party Loves Medicare but Hates Obamacare

How the GOP and the Koch brothers took advantage of the Tea Party's confused populism.

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The Grumpy Obstructionist Party

It's time for Dems to turn the tables.

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Today, Congressional Republicans Violate Their Oath of Office

The House has resorted to hostage-taking, rather than the job it was elected to do.

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The Cult of the Selfish

When did America lose sight of the common good?

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The Three C’s: Capitalism, Cronyism and Corruption

It's a surprise to nobody but himself--Virginia's GOP governor faces scrutiny over the three C's.

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Education: Every American’s Right

Lowering college costs will restore access to the American Dream.

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Young Tea Party ‘Rebels’ Burn Fake ‘Obamacare Cards’

A well-funded Tea Party think tank hopes to convince 3 million young people to forgo subsidized health insurance.

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Supersize Those Wages, McDonald’s

McDonald's meager wages hurt taxpayers as well as workers.

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The GOP’s Summer Break Plans

The Republican guide to secret meetings during Congress's five-week sojourn.

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Who Will Stand Up to Wall Street?

While the House continues kowtowing, a select few in the Senate are working to tame the banks.

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Republicans Love Lucy

Just like Ricky Ricardo, the GOP thinks women are empty-headed twits.

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Dust Off Those Poll Tax Laws, Dixie

The Supreme Court has threatened our most basic right, to the delight of conservatives.

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America Feeds the Rich

If the Farm Bill passes, it will literally take food out of the mouths of babes.

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Bankruptcy Scheme Shafts Coal Miners

Patriot Coal wins in bankruptcy court, reneges on retiree benefits.

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Time for the Democrats to Go Nuclear

Harry Reid has nothing to lose by banning the filibuster of appointments.

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Blood on Gap Jeans

Dozens of companies have signed an agreement to protect Bangladesh factory workers--but The Gap refuses.

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How to Handle the IRS Scandal? Reverse Citizens United

The real moral of the IRS story is that election finance needs serious reform.

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Has the GOP Been Watching Too Much Downton Abbey?

A hereditary aristocracy is not the American way.

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