Corporate Greed Is Poisoning A...

May 20, 2013 by

As long as there are insufficient checks and balances on big business and its powerful lobbies, we are at their mercy.

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Soda Industry Cashes In on Gov...

May 20, 2013 by

The debate over dropping junk food from the nation’s biggest nutrition program..

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Arizona Congressman Wants To E...

May 20, 2013 by

Not content with attempting to impose his anti-abortion agenda upon the women who live in the nation’s capital..

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Rise Up or Die

May 20, 2013 by

Joe Sacco and I spent two years reporting from the poorest pockets of the United States..

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New Analysis of Wikileaks Show...

May 20, 2013 by

Back in December 2010, Wikileaks released thousands of cables between the US State Department..

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Feds Say Peace Activists Who T...

May 20, 2013 by

In another case of possible overreach by federal prosecutors..

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“If people aren’t pissed off, ...

May 20, 2013 by

Tom Steyer spent years as a wildly successful hedge fund manager..

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6 Key Takeaways From the Stupi...

May 19, 2013 by

The maddening episode reveals how Washington works.

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Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, What ...

May 19, 2013 by

I worked for years as an editor at Pantheon Books.

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Obama Has Rarely Or Never Prai...

May 18, 2013 by

In more than four years of office, President Barack Obama has frequently praised the idea of whistleblowing.

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How video of ‘Most Power...

May 18, 2013 by

The actions of 9 protesters who destroyed Vietnam War draft files were filmed on tape and then held by the U.S. Attorney’s office.

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The Real Scandal: How the IRS ...

May 18, 2013 by

For all the outcry about targeting by ideology, IRS has for years unfairly favored a different group: the rich.

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The AP ‘Scandal’: ...

May 17, 2013 by

We’ve read a lot lately about the AP “scandal.”

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Worse Than The AP Phone Scanda...

May 17, 2013 by

Before Attorney General Eric Holder oversaw a Justice Department that secretly seized AP journalists’ phone records,..

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Is The ‘James Bond’ Gun Bill A...

May 17, 2013 by

You may start seeing more people carrying James Bond’s gun around — by law.

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Krist Novoselic: My plan to fi...

May 17, 2013 by

Nirvana’s former bassist is working to end political dysfunction.

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Genetically Modified Democracy...

May 17, 2013 by

Monsanto and Congress Move to Stomp on States’ Rights

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EPA Pick Gina McCarthy Advance...

May 17, 2013 by

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Thursday approved the nomination of Gina McCarthy ..

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What the frack do we know? Not...

May 17, 2013 by

Remember the scene in the movie Gasland where the guy lights his tapwater on fire?

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Heady Colo. farmers plowing ah...

May 17, 2013 by

What do you do when the federal government won’t let you plant a sustainable,..

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Activists Prepare to March Aga...

May 16, 2013 by

..Vermont’s House of Representatives passed a bill on May 10 requiring foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to be labeled.

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Four Easy Fixes for Corporate ...

May 16, 2013 by

It’s time to force governments to stamp out tax abuse by corporations and the wealthy.

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Oil markets at the end of the ...

May 16, 2013 by

One of the things about living in an era of great change..

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As climate change broils the A...

May 16, 2013 by

“Hello, world? Hey, John Kerry here.

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OFA Refuses To Push On Keyston...

May 16, 2013 by

Top officials from President Barack Obama’s campaign arm..

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Chris Hedges: The ‘Terrifying’...

May 16, 2013 by

“We are now in the last moments of an effort to, in essence, effectively extinguish press freedom,” ..

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Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant: Our C...

May 16, 2013 by

It’s not controversial pesticide-resistent crops that fuel Monsanto’s critics..

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California might borrow $500 m...

May 16, 2013 by

One of the great features of California’s cap-and-trade program..

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IRS scandal probably won’t hur...

May 15, 2013 by

News that the Internal Revenue Service targeted of right-wing groups has a lot of Republican legislators asking:

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Meet the group the IRS actuall...

May 15, 2013 by

Although Tea Party applicants got unfair IRS scrutiny, only one known group had status revoked.

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