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The Rich, Conservative Push for Right-to-Work (Video)

What appears to be an impromptu shift in Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s stance on the right-to-work bill he signed into law this week was a consequence of months of planning supported by the Koch family and the behind-the-scenes conservative lobby group ALEC.

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The Cato Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based libertarian think tank, is set to publish a document that poses as an “addendum” to a report released in 2009 by the U.S. Global Change Research Program. The new “report,” which apes the design of the original, denies the threat of global warming.

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How Tax Reporting Is Skewed to Benefit the Rich

Think tanks such as the Cato Institute and the Tax Foundation like to cherry-pick tax data to claim that the rich pay more than their fair share. But a broad look at taxation shows it’s not true, a writer at The Economist says.

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