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The Threat of a Stolen Election
With the use of paperless voting machines in 31 states, recounts become impossible.
George Kenney
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Obama, There’s Still Time
To win, the president needs to stop listening to the Democratic Party elite.
Vic Fingerhut
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A Republican’s Rare Chance to Be a Real Leader
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie could revolutionize his party by acknowledging a simple scientific truth.
David Sirota
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Political Parties Are Basically Bank Accounts
The flood of Wall Street money to campaigns is a threat to democracy, says one political science professor.
Sebastian Meyer
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A Third-Party Breakthrough
The Working Families Party tips a race in upstate New York.
Theo Anderson
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Romney Willing to Win Without Honor
Could voters elect a president that lacks integrity?
Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President
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Canvassers Gone Wired
Labor's get-out-the-vote efforts go digital.
David Moberg
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Back to School in the Bronx
In Fire in the Ashes, Kozol returns to the Mott Haven section of the South Bronx—“the poorest congressional district in the nation.”
Jarrett Dapier
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Russell Means: The Man I Knew
The leader of the American Indian Movement, Oglala citizen and indigenous patriot remembered.
Robert Chanate
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In Defense of the Undecided Voter
In a complicated election, are the waverers really the simple-minded ones?
David Sirota
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Our Political Pravda
With the election approaching, Americans are being spun like pinwheels, and media fact-checkers are struggling to keep up.
Kenneth Rapoza
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Is America Exceptional?
Jarrett Stepman and Eli Zaretsky, representing the Right and Left, respectively, debate U.S. superiority
Jessica Stites
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Progressive Star of Texas
Beto O'Rourke is on his way to shake up Congress.
Theo Anderson
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Romney’s 9-Point Plan to Annihilate Unions
What Mitt Romney and the GOP would like to do to labor.
Jeremy Gantz
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Karen Lewis Drops Knowledge
The Chicago Teachers Union president has the formula for change.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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Meet ‘Me-Too’ Mitt
All Romney is saying is: Give peace a chance. And other curiosities from the last presidential debate.
Theo Anderson
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Will Romney Really Create 12 Million Jobs? Ask Sensata Workers
Bain Capital's outsourcing of 170 jobs at Sensata Technologies indicates Romney's true opinion of American workers.
Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President
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The Blue-Green Jobs That Romney Ignores
The Clean Water Act puts the lie to Mitt Romney's refrain that the government doesn't create jobs.
David Moberg
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Fighting Voter Suppression
The battle for a basic civil right continues to rage.
Brentin Mock
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The Welfare State of America
A manifesto on building social democracy in the age of austerity.
Peter Frase and Bhaskar Sunkara
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Two Old Names, One Lesson About Money
Forget Romney and Obama--what Brewster and Perot can teach us about campaign finance.
David Sirota
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Was It Something I Said?
Obama gets peeved--and prevails over Romney--in the second presidential debate.
Theo Anderson
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A Poverty of Empathy
The GOP's social welfare philosophy dates back to 1818.
Margaret Garb
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Dear Mitt: The Emergency Room Is Not a Healthcare Plan
People don't die from lack of health insurance, Romney claims.
Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President
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