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The real scandal in the Bernie/DNC feud is the one nobody is talking about
When we just talk about how the Sanders campaign accessed unauthorized data, we're ignoring the bigger picture. By David Dayen. (Dec 22)
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The GOP’s nipple ban
The war on women gets personal — and even more hateful — in New Hampshire. By Amanda Marcotte.
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Change the official United States Motto from "In God We Trust" to "E Pluribus Unum". Out of many, we are one.
Please sign this We the People petition!
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Will California Actually Force Legislators to Wear Sponsor Patches Like Nascar Drivers?
The idea could be moving from your uncle's Facebook post to the California State Senate. By Mike Pearl.
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The Bundy siege is a wake-up call: American extremists are getting desperate — and dangerous.
People like the Bundy family are on the decline in America. But before they disappear, they're going to raise hell.
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No Cost for Extremism
According to the news media, 2014 was the year that the GOP “Establishment” finally pulled Republicans back from the right-wing brink. Pragmatism, it seemed, had finally triumphed over extremism in primary and general election contests that The New York Times called “proxy wars for the overall direction of the Republican Party.” There’s just one problem with this dominant narrative. It’s wrong.
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The Nation He Built
Over the past seven years, Americans have heard an awful lot about Barack Obama and his presidency, but the actual substance of his domestic policies and their impact on the country remain poorly understood. He has engineered quite a few quiet revolutions—and some of his louder revolutions are shaking up the status quo in quiet ways. Obama is often dinged for failing to deliver on the hope-and-change rhetoric that inspired so many voters during his ascent to the presidency.
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Video: Muslim Woman Abused by Crowd, Kicked Out of Donald Trump Rally Interviewed by CNN
Woman was 'escorted out' for standing during Trump rally. Then she was booed on her way out.
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[Maine Gov.] LePage in spotlight for saying drug dealers impregnate ‘white girls’
Hillary Clinton issues a sharp rebuke and national news media react after the governor tells an audience that drug dealers come to Maine from New York and Connecticut and 'half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave.' By Randy Billings. (Jan. 7)
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US democracy trumps all as a dysfunctional disgrace
The dwindling ranks of those who line up to defend America’s system are able to do so only if they view it through a prism of its lofty 18th-century ideals, rather than 21st-century realities.
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Denial, paranoia and bigotry: Obama warns against Republican ugliness and they immediately prove him right
Obama hit all the requisite marks for a State of the Union address: Cataloging past successes, describing current obstacles, outlining bold plans for the future. But, at its heart, the speech was ultimately a lengthy rebuttal to — and a warning about — the metastasizing ugliness and hatred that is pouring out of the conservative movement and the Republican Party that relies on this increasingly vitriolic, hateful conservative base.
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Ted Cruz Did Not Report Loan From Goldman in Senate Race
As Ted Cruz tells it, loyalty and sacrifice helped finance his 2012 Senate bid in Texas. Turns out, a Goldman Sachs loan did as well, but it does not appear in reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.
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'Government is the problem' and other Republican delusions
This was the backdrop to the Reagan revolution — and why it suited the moment. Republicans love to quote The Gipper's first inaugural address and its declaration that "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." But few bother to note that this statement was preceded by a qualification: "In this present crisis.”
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This is actually what America would look like without gerrymandering
It would be easy enough to do. The only thing lacking is the political will.
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Will anyone watch the Democratic debate this weekend?
The last debate before the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire Primary will take place during an NFL playoff game and Downton Abbey. DNC chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz says television stations dictated the debate times, but GOP debates had no such conflicts.
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Republicans' White, Working-Class Trap: A Growing Reliance
In 2012, whites without a college degree were far more likely to vote Republican. They are a shrinking part of the electorate, but their influence is growing in GOP primaries.
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Meet the 20 Tech Insiders Defining the 2016 Campaign
This is the election when Silicon Valley finally upstages the old 20th-century power structure and seizes control of the political game.
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Declassified Documents: U.S. Military Bombed the Nazi Germany Oil Refinery That Fred Koch Helped Build
Among the revelations in Dark Money, Jane Mayer’s expansive new book on the Koch brothers and the rise of contemporary American conservatism, is that Fred Koch, the billionaire duo’s father, once helped build an oil refinery in Nazi Germany. The New York Times broke that item last week, but left out a key detail from the book: allied forces bombed the refinery during World War II.
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Sarah Palin’s son was arrested for assaulting his girlfriend and possessing a gun while intoxicated
Track Palin was arrested hours before his mother formally endorsed Donald Trump for president.
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No, Bernie Sanders Is Not Attacking Planned Parenthood or the Human Rights Campaign
The gaffe cycle strikes again.
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