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Hasterts Earmarks: Pork or Politics?
former Speaker Hastert in land deal scandal that questions legitimacy of federal funding.
Phoebe Connelly

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Nurses Fight to Retain Right to Unionize
An NLRB ruling undercut the rights of millions to unionize by reclassifying them as supervisors.
David Moberg

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Mexican Vote Count Still in Question
Vote count in Mexican presidential election undecided after election.
Linda Lutton

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Bigger Salaries for Big Box Workers?
Will Chicago Pass a Big Box Ordinance to raise worker wages?
Adam Doster

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Blowing the Whistle on Diebold
Diebold's electronic voting machines fraught with problems and conspiracy theories
John Ireland

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Are Primaries Going West?
DNC floats a proposal to reform the primary system.
Christopher Moraff

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Europe Turns a Blind Eye to the CIA
EU governments are ignoring the CIA's transportation of terror suspects to torture sites
Tony Wesolowsky

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Curriculum Wars
A California State Senator wants to help public schools catch up with history
John Ireland

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The U.S.-Israeli Somalia Plan
Neve Gordon

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Postmark Guantánamo
Why is the Pentagon keeping prisoners' mail from their lawyers?
Christopher Hayes

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Biofuel Challenges Big Oil
Charles Shaw

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Drug Warriors Push Eye-Eating Fungus
Why are members of Congress advocating the use of a dangerous crop-killer in Colombia?
Jeremy Bigwood

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Iran Exports Anti-Gay Pogrom to Iraq
Doug Ireland

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GOP Jams Democracy
How high did the Republicans' New Hampshire phone scheme reach?
Paul Kiel

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NSA Thwarts Whistleblower
Leah A. Nelson

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Undercover Cover-Up
Was a Portland attorney the target of the NSA domestic spying program?
Kristian Williams

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Minor League Umps Call a (Labor) Strike
Jeffrey Lane

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Locating Argentine Memories
Joseph Huff-Hannon

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Putting the IRS to Political Use?
Emily Udell

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Walking Out and Standing Up
Daffodil Altan

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Fear of the Polish Plumber
Tony Wesolowsky

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A Legal Limbo
Mischa Gaus

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Head of Stage
Berlusconi uses members of Congress as props in his bid for re-election
Christopher Hayes

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Contraception in the Crosshairs
Phoebe Connelly
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