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The Joe Biden Delusion
The vice president commands enormous affection. That doesn’t mean he can win the Democratic presidential nomination.
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The pushback against unfair labor practices
The battle for higher wages and union representation is generating some positive results.
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Donald Trump signs the pledge to not run against Republicans if he doesn't get the 2016 Republican presidential nominee
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/639517204434800640
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Today, NPR made Sanders an unperson...at least for NPR listeners
NPR political correspondent Mara Liasson performed acrobatics before a live audience of radio listeners today (9/2/15) — twisting herself into a pretzel to avoid mentioning (whisper:) Bernie.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: This is the difference between Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders
Watch how they conduct their campaigns.
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The US should mandate gun insurance so the two monoliths fight to the death
Most of the time, if you act fearless enough and choose your battles wisely, the majority of schoolyard bullies can be faced down. But I learned as an out-of-the-closet gay teen in south Georgia in the early 1980s that some bullies are just too big to fight.
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8th September 1974 - Ford pardons Nixon
In a controversial executive action, President Gerald Ford pardons his disgraced predecessor Richard Nixon for any crimes he may have committed or participated in while in office. Ford later defended this action before the House Judiciary Committee, explaining that he wanted to end the national divisions created by the Watergate scandal.
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The True Story Of How One Man Shut Down American Commerce To Avoid Paying His Workers A Fair Wage
America's railroads -- and with them, its economy -- nearly ground to a halt in 1894 because one of the wealthiest men in American history decided to grow his own fortune on the backs of hungry workers.
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Boehner's future as speaker in doubt
Boehner faces a grueling next few months, and even allies believe this will be his last term atop the GOP conference.
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Tech veteran John McAfee to join 2016 US presidential race as independent
Software mogul says he plans to set up his own party after receiving ‘thousands’ of emails from advisors asking him to run
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Hillary Clinton Goes to Militaristic, Hawkish Think Tank, Gives Militaristic, Hawkish Speech
If Hillary Clinton is already this hawkish while trying to fend off Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary, imagine what she'll be doing and saying in the general election or, worse, while in the Oval Office as “Commander-in-Chief.”
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The Real History of 'Corporate Personhood': Meet the Man to Blame for Corporations Having More Rights Than You
The real history of today's excessive corporate power starts with a tobacco lawyer appointed to the Supreme Court.
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Sheldon Adelson Is Ready to Buy the Presidency
He just hasn’t decided which Republican candidate to back. Care to make a pitch?
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Touting morality, Billionaire Texas Brothers top 2016 Political Donor List
One Saturday morning in August, Pastor Farris Wilks, a brawny man with a close-cut beard, walked up to the altar of the church he leads, the Assembly of Yahweh, 7th Day.
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Lisa Murkowski Becomes First GOP Senator To Back Voting Rights Act Restoration
In a sign of just how much the Republican Party has shifted on the Voting Rights Act since the bipartisan landmark civil rights bill was passed 50 years ago, it was surprising to see Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski sign on to a bill Thursday to restore the now-gutted legislation.
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In Radical Shift, GOP Leaders Actively Embrace Catastrophic Climate Change
If indifference to the dangers of climate inaction by the rich and powerful is a sin, as the Pope has said, how immoral is it for the rich and powerful to actively try to block the entire world from acting in concert?
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Huckabee: Dred Scott 'still the law of the land'
Mike Huckabee has invented his own version of American civics, which he likes to pretend is real.
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Rick Perry drops out of 2016 presidential race
Rick Perry, the former Texas governor who insisted he learned lessons from his disastrous 2012 presidential campaign, dropped his second bid for the White House on Friday after just 100 days.
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The Shutdown Congress, And Why The GOP Can't Help Itself
The government will run out of money at the end of September, and while congressional leaders have yet to offer a plan to keep the lights on, some Republicans have already seized on the notion of linking that vital spending to a bill defunding Planned Parenthood -- a move that would guarantee deadlock.
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Why Is Donald Trump So Compelling? Two Advertising Experts Explain.
Americans love Trump's simplified versions of complex issues, even if his proposals make no sense.
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