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The Sunshine State’s Shadowy Legacy

How the 2000 Florida presidential election transformed the GOP.

Theo Anderson

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The Economic Normalcy Bias

Even in a time of financial crisis, our culture consumes as if there were no tomorrow.

David Sirota

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It’s the Stupid Republicans, Stupid

Progressives shouldn't be shy about mobilizing voters around singe-issue passions.

Susan J. Douglas

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A Case of Strategic Debasement

What the infamous Marine urination video teaches us about war and the U.S. military.

Gregory D. Foster

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Our Selective Definition of Bigotry

There's unacceptable racism, and then there's acceptable racism.

David Sirota

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It’s More Than a War of Words

If Democrats can't inspire progressives to vote this year, Barack Obama will be a one-term president.

Joel Bleifuss

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The Susan B. Anthony List’s Situational Feminism

The organization's model legislation makes clear it is more interested in ending abortion than helping women.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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America’s Real Occupiers

Public officials who remove themselves and their families from the community they govern.

David Sirota

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Recognizing the ‘Unpeople’

From Africa to the Middle East to the United States, the unmentioned continue to suffer.

Noam Chomsky

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Commemorating Our Soon-to-Be Lost Vernacular

What words and phrases will end up as relics of the past?

David Sirota

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Occupy the Electoral Process

It would be a mistake for members of the Occupy movement to ignore the 2012 elections.

Liz Novak

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The Lonesome Death of Josh Dylan Pfenning

A man who is unhoused kills himself at an Occupy encampment, underscoring America's widening chasms.

Terry J. Allen

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‘Tis The Season of Fake Outrage

Every year, the right wing inevitably decries the nonexistent 'War on Christmas.'

David Sirota

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Banana Republicans’ Assault on Democracy

Why does America's highest-ranking GOP politician oppose scrapping the electoral college?

David Sirota

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The Lowlights of 2011’s ‘War on Women’

With a new Congress in office, battles over reproductive healthcare access came back with a vengeance.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Class Consciousness Is Back

Once you notice inequality, you can't escape the realities of class in America.

Susan J. Douglas

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Steve Forbes: The GOP’s Man in 2012

The Republican Party’s awkward flat-taxing farce has the last laugh.

Theo Anderson

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What’s Next for the Occupy Movement?

There is much to celebrate, even as the tents come down. But it's time for new strategies.

Marilyn Katz

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Why Conservatives Can’t Fix Poverty

Newt Gingrich's new idea offers a stark reminder.

James Thindwa

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What Real Education Reform Looks Like

New reports underscore what should be obvious: Poverty and punitive funding formulas drive America's education problems.

David Sirota

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Marching Off the Cliff

The world wants UN climate talks in Durban to succeed, but U.S. intransigence blocks the way forward.

Noam Chomsky

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Celebrating the End of Kids’ Wall Street Dreams

The number of young people in finance-related fields is falling—and that's not a bad thing.

David Sirota

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Assassinating the Rule of Law

President Obama has carried on where former President George W. Bush left off.

Leonard C. Goodman

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CIA Boosts Vaccination Conspiracies

The agency's public health ruse to confirm Bin Laden's whereabouts caused collateral damage.

Terry J. Allen