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By Bill Blum — Racial nostalgists working to restore white political power through voter suppression may have an ally in the Supreme Court.
Posted on Sep 5, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — I once wrote, about Gerald Ford, that an honest politician is one who lies only when he has to. Ford, a pretty straight shooter, is gone now. He has been replaced by Mitt Romney the ignorant and Paul Ryan the liar.
Posted on Sep 2, 2012
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: We take a hard look at the 2012 GOP convention in Tampa, Fla., from the partying to the homophobia to the shadowy fundraising. And what’s this about welfare reform?
Posted on Sep 2, 2012
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: We take a hard look at the 2012 GOP convention in Tampa, from the partying to the homophobia to the shadowy fundraising. And what’s this about welfare reform?
Posted on Aug 31, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Has there ever been a more dishonest presidential campaign than the one Republicans are waging right now?
Posted on Aug 31, 2012
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By Joe Conason — On the same day that Mitt Romney cracked his birther “joke,” new evidence indicated that he and his partners at Bain Capital have used questionable methods to avoid federal taxes.
Posted on Aug 31, 2012
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By Alan Minsky —
The tea partyers are useful hucksters, but those barbarians are not yet at the gate. The real fear and loathing rest where they have always been, in the familiar guise of freshly tailored suits, cigar-chomping patriarchs with their women trailing five steps behind.
Posted on Aug 29, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — Four hardy souls from rural Illinois joined tens of thousands of people undeterred by threats of Hurricane Isaac during this week’s Republican National Convention.
Posted on Aug 29, 2012
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Rick Santorum ran a little wild Tuesday night in Tampa, saying he held the hand of dirty farmers as well as the American dream, and referring to President Obama in dictatorial terms.
Posted on Aug 28, 2012
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Behold as Mitt Romney is nominated, Rick Santorum talks about holding hands and Chris Christie eats a sandwich. Thanks, YouTube.
Posted on Aug 28, 2012
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By Daryl Cagle, MSNBC.com —
Posted on Aug 28, 2012
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By Christopher Weyant, The Hill —
Posted on Aug 28, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — In 1964, George Romney, then the governor of Michigan, walked out of the Republican National Convention during Barry Goldwater’s acceptance speech. He was protesting his party’s sharp turn rightward and its weak platform plank on civil rights.
Posted on Aug 27, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — As he became president in 1981, Ronald Reagan called in a 34-year-old congressman from Michigan named David Stockman, considered by many to be the most articulate and intellectually imposing Republican of the moment.
Posted on Aug 26, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Elizabeth Warren is the kind of person Massachusetts has always liked to send to the U.S. Senate. So why hasn’t one of this year’s most exciting Senate candidates put the election away?
Posted on Aug 22, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — There is the idea of having Paul Ryan on the Republican ticket, and then there is the reality.
Posted on Aug 15, 2012
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The Mitt Romney VP Guessing Game is officially over now that the Republican presidential candidate has chosen Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin to be his running mate.
Posted on Aug 11, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Excuse me, folks, but the weather is trying to tell us something. Listen carefully, and you can almost hear a parched, raspy voice whispering, “What part of ‘hottest month ever’ do you people not understand?”
Posted on Aug 9, 2012
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July was the hottest month in the U.S. on record, yet many in the GOP continue to dispute global warming and the science behind it.
Posted on Aug 8, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Mitt Romney’s defiant secrecy about his personal finances looks like a cross Republicans will have to bear all the way to Election Day. To put it mildly, the burden seems to chafe.
Posted on Aug 6, 2012
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By Bill Blum — Whatever petition the Supreme Court decides to take up, the suppression movement will find a welcome setting.
Posted on Jul 31, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Conservatives and a Republican Party now under their control hope to eke out a narrow victory in November on the basis of a quite radical program that includes more tax cuts for the rich and a sharp rollback in government regulation.
Posted on Jul 29, 2012
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There can be no confusion when the Republican candidate, speaking from Jerusalem, says “Diplomatic distance in public between our nations emboldens Israel’s adversaries” that he refers to the frosty relationship between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Posted on Jul 29, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — Ignored by the presidential campaigns, poverty is hitting 1960s levels, and spreading to once-prosperous areas unequipped or unwilling to serve poor residents.
Posted on Jul 26, 2012
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The casino magnate who is reported to have already committed $71 million in this election cycle may have good reason to want access to the next president. As “Democracy Now!” reports, Adelson is under investigation for his business dealings in Macau, China, as well as Las Vegas.
Posted on Jul 18, 2012
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By Joe Conason — The central problem in Greece is the government’s failure to collect what taxpayers (especially wealthy taxpayers like Mitt Romney) actually owe under the law.
Posted on Jul 13, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Spare us any more hooey about “preventing fraud” and “protecting the integrity of the ballot box.” The Republican-led crusade for voter ID laws is revealed as a cynical ploy to disenfranchise as many likely Democratic voters as possible, with poor people and minorities the main targets.
Posted on Jul 9, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — You can conduct byzantine transactions through opaque investment accounts and private corporations in offshore tax havens such as Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. Or you can credibly run for president at a time of great economic distress. I don’t think you can do both.
Posted on Jul 6, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — Now that the Supreme Court has reprieved the Affordable Care Act and Mitt Romney has renewed his pledge to dismantle it, let’s try again to pierce the Republican presidential candidate’s protective coat of vagueness and think about where he would take the country.
Posted on Jul 4, 2012
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Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein thanks supporters after it was announced this week that she is the first-ever member of the party to qualify for federal matching funds.
Posted on Jul 3, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The Supreme Court’s health care decision only reinforced the importance of the economic argument Obama and Romney have been having for months. And here is where Romney’s Bain problem kicks in.
Posted on Jul 1, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — The political impact of Thursday’s stunning Supreme Court decision on health care reform is clear. Much more important is what the ruling means in the long term for the physical and moral health of the nation.
Posted on Jun 28, 2012
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Bill Moyers shames super PAC donors and beneficiaries, including some lesser-known personalities.
Posted on Jun 19, 2012
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