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Bernie Sanders has raised more money than every GOP campaign so far. But there’s a catch.
Amazingly enough, long-shot presidential contender Bernie Sanders has raised more money for his campaign than any Republican has in the first half of this year. His team says 250,000 donors have given to the Sanders campaign so far — which goes to show that the Vermont senator has a very broad base of small-donor support.
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A Year After Eric Garner’s Death, Has Anything Changed?
For the past 12 months, America has actually paid attention to police violence—but what has it learned? By David A. Graham.
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Chris Christie Is Turning Tap Water Into a Private Commodity
A new law pushed by the governor makes it even easier for towns to sell their public utilities to private corporations.
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Judge Kozinski: There's Very Little Justice In Our So-Called 'Justice System'
Judge Alex Kozinski has long been one of the few judges willing to speak up against our nation's thoroughly corrupted justice system. It's not the normal form of corruption, where juries and judges are openly bought and sold. It's...
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The Inside Story of the Crony Court that Deep-Sixed the Scott Walker Probe
Yesterday, Scott Walker caught a break when the Wisconsin Supreme Court, on a party line vote, shut down a criminal investigation of his 2012 recall election campaign. The inquiry, called “John Doe” investigation, was led by a Republican special prosecutor on behalf of five Wisconsin county district attorneys who were probing whether Walker had broken state campaign finance laws...
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Warren Urges 2016 Candidates to Fight 'Revolving Door'
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Friday pressed the 2016 presidential contenders to curb the influence of Wall Street banks, as she seeks to leave her imprint on the agenda of Hillary Rodham Clinton and rest of the Democratic field.
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3 Absurd Conservative Reactions to the Planned Parenthood 'Sting'
A deceptively edited video of a Planned Parenthood rep discussing the donation of fetal remains has the right in a tizzy.
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The story of Brazil’s killer cops
Street-level war has now spread to every city, as civilians and criminals alike face deadly injustice at the hands of the police.
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Army’s Anthropology Experiment Ends in Defeat
Embedding social scientists in combat is a good idea -- but they should be in uniform.
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Campaigns shatter spending records
The crowded field of 2016 presidential candidates spent $48 million through the first half of the year — nearly twice as much as their counterparts had at this point in the 2012 cycle — reflecting the new realities of fast, expensive campaign launches.The dramatic spending spike — detailed in Wednesday’s reports to the Federal Election Commission covering the beginning of April through the end of June — was underwritten mostly by fewer donors, each giving more money.
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Mexico: Making the Dogs Dance
Within a few hours of his relaxed escape from Mexico’s highest security prison early Saturday evening, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, better known as “el Chapo” for his stocky build, was back on Twitter. By Alma Guillermoprieto.
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Hillary Clinton’s Glass-Steagall
Hillary Clinton won’t propose reinstating a bank break-up law known as the Glass-Steagall Act – at least according to Alan Blinder, an economist who has been advising Clinton’s campaign. “You’re not...
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Chris Christie Gives Taxpayer Subsidy To Donor Whose Lawsuit Helped Him Prosecute Democratic Financier
The New Jersey governor's administration granted a $40 million subsidy to a man whose lawsuit helped prosecute a Democratic financier. By Andrew Perez and David Sirota.
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That Video “Exposing” Planned Parenthood's Sale of Fetal Tissue Is Completely Misleading
The conservative media is a-flutter thinking they have a "gotcha" against Planned Parenthood: a video supposedly exposing the organization for "selling" fetal body parts, which is against the law. The video, created by a group called the Center for Medical Progress but distributed and promoted by Live Action, shows Planned Parenthood's senior director of medical services Deborah Nucatola at a lunch meeting with people who apparently pretended to be medical research organizers...
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Ted Cruz loses his wingnut welfare: How the New York Times smacked down a decades-old conservative racket
For years, Republicans have been artificially manufacturing best-selling books — but Cruz took it one step too far
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No, the F-35 Can’t Fight at Long Range, Either
Stealth fighter can’t see, shoot or survive.
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The Big Lie That Helped Justify America’s War In Afghanistan
The United States trumpets education as one of its shining successes of the war in Afghanistan. But a BuzzFeed News investigation reveals U.S. claims were often outright lies...
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The government says airlines prey on consumers. That’s the government’s fault
The Justice Department is investigating a situation that its own actions helped bring about. By Lina Khan.
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What Is Scott Walker Trying to Hide?
As the Wisconsin governor prepares to announce his candidacy for president, his office admits involvement in an attempt to gut open-records laws.
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Price tag for Syrian rebels: $4 million each
How much has the United States spent to train that whopping force of 60 Syrian rebels to take on the Islamic State? Well, according to basic math, about $4 million for each of them. Politico has learned that of the $500 million requested last year for the “train-and-equip” program, roughly half has been spent... By Austin Wright.
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