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Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 24, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a senator’s attempt to repeal the Monsanto Protection Act and the real IRS scandal that is being missed.
Posted on May 21, 2013
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By Kim Barker and Justin Elliott, ProPublica —
The IRS division responsible for flagging tea party groups has long been an agency afterthought, beset by mismanagement, financial constraints and an unwillingness to spell out just what it expects from social welfare nonprofits, former officials and experts say.
Posted on May 17, 2013
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By Joe Conason — Having served in Congress for more than three decades—and in the upper chamber since 1996—Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden has established a reputation as one of the Senate’s more serious and diligent members.
Posted on May 16, 2013
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By William Pfaff — It is not simply the euro zone that is threatened by the dramatic economic discrepancies that now exist among its members. Now it is the European Union itself that is in danger.
Posted on May 14, 2013
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By Richard Reeves — Immigrants, gays and women who choose abortion are our relatives. They are in our families. We love them—even Republican senators with gay children love them—and we don’t like seeing them pushed around by our government.
Posted on May 7, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Apr 15, 2013
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Polls have closed in Venezuela’s presidential election, which pitted a top lieutenant of the late Hugo Chavez against a veteran Chavez opponent who promised to take the country in a different direction.
Posted on Apr 14, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Apr 9, 2013
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By Lois Beckett, ProPublica —
Republicans want to use data to make predictions about individual voters, and they may contract with a “data warehousing” company used by Wal-Mart and Apple.
Posted on Apr 9, 2013
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Rick McKee, Cagle Cartoons, The Augusta Chronicle —
Posted on Apr 4, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Apr 2, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — Edie and Thea met in the early 1960s, in New York’s Greenwich Village. They hit it off.
Posted on Mar 27, 2013
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Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Columbus Dispatch —
Posted on Mar 21, 2013
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Rand Paul (CC-BY-SA)
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
Libertarians, whom the Republican National Committee has largely shut out, assumed a more energetic role at CPAC this year, using the failed election as evidence that the GOP should return to their philosophy’s ideals.
Posted on Mar 20, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including John Boehner’s explanation of why he’ll never support gay marriage and a CPAC participant’s shocking comments on slavery.
Posted on Mar 17, 2013
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Mar 17, 2013
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By Kim Barker, Pro Publica —
Although many watchdog organizations track how political committees raise money, few look at how the money is ultimately disbursed. PACs can spend their money as they want and often devote some of it to fundraising, but most spend the bulk of contributions on efforts clearly aimed at electing specific candidates.
Posted on Mar 17, 2013
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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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By Joe Conason — Someone needs to tell Paul Ryan that his party—and the economic platform of austerity and plutocracy he crafted for it—lost a national election last year.
Posted on Mar 13, 2013
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By David Sirota — Why are ideas widely supported in most of the country so often portrayed as controversial, polarizing and divisive once they are taken up by legislatures?
Posted on Mar 8, 2013
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By Richard Reeves — “What if they gave an election and no one came?” That’s a paraphrase of a war or anti-war cry of the 1960s. More than 40 years later in Los Angeles, the nation’s second-largest city, the cliché came alive in reports of Tuesday’s municipal election, where turnout has dropped to 16 percent, half the number of people who turned out for local elections only eight years ago.
Posted on Mar 7, 2013
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Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Mar 7, 2013
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By William Pfaff — Switzerland just had a referendum in which it voted to give company and bank shareholders veto rights over the salaries, bonuses and overall compensation packages of senior executives and board directors.
Posted on Mar 5, 2013
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Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP
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By Robert Scheer — What was Michelle Obama thinking? What if the card for “Zero Dark Thirty” had been lurking in that best picture envelope Sunday?
Posted on Feb 26, 2013
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By David Sirota — Despite its success in recent elections, and despite the image of unity it projects, the Democratic Party is in the throes of an epic identity crisis pitting its corporate money against its stated principles.
Posted on Feb 22, 2013
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By Joe Conason — Savvy Republicans know that something is deeply wrong with the GOP —frequently mocked these days by Republicans themselves as “the stupid party”—which has lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections.
Posted on Feb 20, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The deficit that should concern us most right now has to do with time, not money. Money can be recouped. Time just disappears.
Posted on Feb 20, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — In his bid to be remembered as a transformational leader, President Obama is following the playbook of an ideological opposite, Margaret Thatcher. First you win the argument, she used to say, then you win the vote.
Posted on Feb 15, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — For the first time in its 120-year history, the Sierra Club engaged in civil disobedience, the day after President Barack Obama gave his 2013 State of the Union address.
Posted on Feb 13, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Feb 10, 2013
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Jan 29, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — Republicans shouldn’t worry that President Obama is trying to destroy the GOP. Why would he bother? The party’s leaders are doing a pretty good job of it themselves.
Posted on Jan 29, 2013
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Jan 28, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — Republicans wanted nothing more than to summon Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Capitol Hill and grill her about the tragic fiasco in Benghazi. Sadly for them, they got their wish.
Posted on Jan 25, 2013
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Jan 24, 2013
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Reagan Library
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — To understand how Barack Obama sees himself and his presidency, don’t look to Franklin Roosevelt or Abraham Lincoln.
Posted on Jan 23, 2013
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The covering over a painting of a slave performing fellatio on a white man has been removed at the Newark Public Library after much controversy; foreign universities are struggling to compete with elite American ones in the online education market; meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal has revealed that the National Counterterrorism Center has been given massive amounts of authority to surveil Americans via datasets. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jan 23, 2013
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John Darkow, Cagle Cartoons, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri —
Posted on Jan 23, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Jan 23, 2013
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Patrick Chappatte, Cagle Cartoons, The International Herald Tribune —
Posted on Jan 22, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Jan 22, 2013
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Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Columbus Dispatch —
Posted on Jan 22, 2013
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Luojie, Cagle Cartoons, China Daily, China —
Posted on Jan 20, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Jan 19, 2013
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
Nader is suing the Federal Election Commission for not investigating the law firms that allegedly worked on behalf of the Democratic National Committee in a coordinated effort to obstruct his bid for the presidency in 2004.
Posted on Jan 19, 2013
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