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By Kim Barker, Al Shaw and Ariel Wittenberg, ProPublica —
Recent nonprofit fundraising announcements hint at how secret money could factor into the upcoming election more directly than initially forecast after the U.S. Supreme Court opened the door to super PACs two years ago.
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With all the worries about corporate colonization of the Internet and the specter of online censorship getting spookier all the time, it’s important to acknowledge the ways in which the Web can still be used for the greater good.
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By David Sirota — A school’s wager on computer technology as a pedagogic panacea is often just that: a blind gamble, and one that evidence shows is hardly safe.
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By Eugene Robinson — I wish Mitt Romney’s cavalier dismissal of poverty in America could be chalked up as just another gaffe, but it’s much worse than that.
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By Lena Groeger, ProPublica —
A few weeks ago, the Food and Drug Administration hit the American Red Cross with a nearly $10 million fine for safety violations, lax oversight and faulty testing of its blood services. The fine is just the latest of more than a dozen the Red Cross has racked up in the last decade.
Posted on Feb 2, 2012
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AP / Charles Dharapak
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By Bill Boyarsky — Pity the poor mainstream news media, confronted with many debates, demands for instantaneous coverage, competition for website traffic and the specter of ever-multiplying super PACs.
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By Robert Lipsyte, TomDispatch —
You might think that celebrating the holiest day of violence, consumerism and class warfare on your couch is a betrayal of your values or a waste of time. Not this Sunday. This election season, watch the game to understand how jobs, religion, leadership and health care dominate every American contest.
Posted on Feb 2, 2012
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AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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By Robert Scheer — That Lawrence Summers and Bill Clinton, the president he served as treasury secretary, can still get away with disclaiming responsibility for our financial meltdown is an insult to reason.
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By Joe Conason — Triumph in Florida could cost Romney much more than the million dollars or so that bought each point of his 46-32 margin over Newt Gingrich.
Posted on Feb 2, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — After he and the pro-Romney super PACs flooded the airwaves with millions of dollars’ worth of ads in a state where nearly half of the homeowners are underwater, Mitt Romney talked about whom he wants to represent.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Romney’s decisive victory in Florida came at a price. He aggravated Newt Gingrich’s hostility to him, with all the trouble that could entail, and left behind a dispirited Republican electorate in a state the GOP needs to win this fall.
Posted on Feb 1, 2012
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DoD / MC1 Chad J. McNeeley
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By William Pfaff — Americans might do better to give up their China obsession and go back to their traditional vision of a European threat.
Posted on Jan 31, 2012
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AP / Amr Nabil
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By Lauren Unger-Geoffroy — The celebration brought hundreds of thousands from all walks of life to Tahrir Square. We left with a feeling of disappointment.
Posted on Jan 31, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — When the empire strikes back, it hits hard. The Republican establishment is deploying every weapon and every soldier—even Bob Dole—in an increasingly desperate attempt to pulverize the Newt Gingrich rebellion.
Posted on Jan 30, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — Reality show? What I see is an aquarium. The debates look like a tank full of exotic fish flashing their stuff for an instant at a time. You never see the whole thing, just flashes.
Posted on Jan 30, 2012
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