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Getting what you vote for
Politics Does it matter that many can’t register for coverage? Related articles Effort to Repeal Obamacare is Nearly Dead (politicalwire.com) Obamacare Proves the Virtues of Federalism...
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Quote of the day
This one comes from the word processor of the late Peter Mair: The age of party democracy has passed. Although the parties themselves remain, they have become so disconnected from the wider society,...
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Socialism: Converting Hysterical Misery into Ordinary Unhappiness for a...
Reblogged from Corey Robin: In yesterday's New York Times, Robert Pear reports on a little known fact about Obamacare: the insurance packages available on the federal exchange have very high...
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First Black President© to open Plantations!
A White House press release announced the good news: For decades before the economic crisis, local communities were transformed as jobs were sent overseas and middle class Americans worked harder and...
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Glenn Greenwald and Peter King respond to Obama’s NSA ‘Reforms’
Filed under: Video Tagged: Barack Obama, CNN, Edward Snowden, Fear Mongering, Glenn Greenwald, Human rights, National Security Agency, NSA, Party Duopoly, Peter King, Politics, Privacy Rights,...
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Austerity kills
It is always good to recognize that an unnecessary but not pointless austerity politics has adverse and, sometimes, existential problems for those individuals without the means or power to solve their...
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Robert Polin on minimum wage increases
Lost jobs because of modest — and thus inadequate — minimum wage increases? Not according to Robert Polin: Filed under: Recommended, Video Tagged: Austerity Politics, Barack Obama, Class Conflict,...
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Quote of the day
John Kerry, a crude opportunist by trade and need, recently dismissed Edward Snowden’s manhood — his virtù, to use the sense of the word given to it by Niccolò Machiavelli. David Lindorff rightly took...
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It’s the end of the world as we know it
Apart from excited Trump supporters, there are few in the United States and elsewhere anticipating his inauguration with hope for the future and gratitude over his success. The fact is, if the United...
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The chaos
Some assert that Donald Trump is a fascist. Although his personal inclinations as revealed to the public show a person with the personality a fascist leader would have, and his identity and class...
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