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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on May 24, 2013
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on May 24, 2013
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on May 24, 2013
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Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 24, 2013
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By David Sirota — There is something troubling about government leaders initially implying—if subtly—that a nongovernmental response is as significant as a governmental one.
Posted on May 23, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including why an Oklahoma senator thinks federal disaster relief to his state after a deadly tornado is unnecessary and John McCain gets all maverick-y again.
Posted on May 23, 2013
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In a letter to Russian authorities this week, former Beatle Paul McCartney asked them to release the remaining members of Pussy Riot from prison. McCartney’s missive comes as the punk band’s Maria Alyokhina began a hunger strike after she was not allowed to attend her own parole hearing.
Posted on May 23, 2013
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By Ralph Nader —
This new media landscape is more hostile to the civic community and discourages the younger generation from believing that change is truly within our grasp.
Posted on May 23, 2013
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PBS recently made the decision to pull the plug on “Citizen Koch,” a documentary about money and politics that paints a less than flattering picture of the conservative billionaire Koch brothers. That hasn’t sat too well with many, including the host of “The Colbert Report.”
Posted on May 23, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on May 23, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on May 23, 2013
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By Joe Conason — An interview with Thomas Pickering, the distinguished American diplomat who oversaw the State Department’s Benghazi review board and has found himself a target of Republican Rep. Darrell Issa of California, the excitable partisan who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Posted on May 22, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — While listening to an NPR report out of Moore, Okla., this week, I was genuinely shocked. Not by the scale of the devastation or the tenacity of people who have grown stoically accustomed to the damage tornadoes can do, but by a political sentiment that, in almost any other era, would not have been surprising at all.
Posted on May 22, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — Nearly 12 years after it was first enacted, the Authorization for Use of Military Force remains in force, giving the Obama administration and the Pentagon carte blanche to wage war, to occupy nations, to kill people with drone “signature strikes,” based not on guilt but on a remote analysis of a suspect’s “patterns of life.”
Posted on May 22, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Rep. Darrell Issa decides to withdraw a subpoena related to the Benghazi hearings and a top IRS official pleads the Fifth.
Posted on May 22, 2013
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In a letter to congressional leaders Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder formally acknowledged that four American citizens had been killed by U.S. drone strikes abroad, including al-Qaida-affiliated cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
Posted on May 22, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on May 22, 2013
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On “Democracy Now!” on Wednesday, Matt Rothschild reiterated his call for the attorney general to resign or be fired in the wake of recent revelations that the government was spying on the press and on Occupy protesters.
Posted on May 22, 2013
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By Bill Boyarsky — The Los Angeles election Tuesday again revealed a city unlike most of the country—more liberal, more deeply Democratic, yet also more interested in medical marijuana than the troubles of the poor.
Posted on May 22, 2013
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At a Senate Banking Committee hearing Tuesday, the Massachusetts senator got the best of the Treasury secretary as she pressed him on whether the government should cap the size of big banks or break them up.
Posted on May 22, 2013
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By William Pfaff — The bombs that ended the Boston Marathon in April were planted by young Muslims who had come to the United States as immigrants, rejected America as a civilization, and then attacked it, leaving behind a message of religious war.
Posted on May 22, 2013
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By Richard Reeves — Here’s a modest idea to break the gridlock, the stupidity, the meanness, the partisan lying and irresponsible ineffectiveness of modern Washington. We should consider returning to the Middle Ages.
Posted on May 21, 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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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on May 21, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on May 21, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on May 21, 2013
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RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, Roll Call —
Posted on May 21, 2013
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on May 21, 2013
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
Posted on May 21, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on May 21, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 21, 2013
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By Susan Zakin — It’s likely Tamerlan Tsarnaev was just another angry young man in our brave new America, a burgeoning dystopia where mass murder suddenly seems like a weekly occurrence.
Posted on May 20, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — The unwarranted snooping, which was revealed last week, would be troubling enough if it were an isolated incident. But it is part of a pattern that threatens to redefine investigative reporting as criminal behavior.
Posted on May 20, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a GOP candidate once trying to criminalize not reporting a miscarriage to police and Bob Woodward delivers some bad news for Republicans.
Posted on May 20, 2013
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
A bipartisan team of U.S. senators has introduced a bill that would expand sanctions against Iran by targeting an estimated $100 billion worth of the country’s foreign currency reserves that are parked in overseas accounts.
Posted on May 20, 2013
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The Democratic senator from New York has proposed legislation that would allow holders of student debt to refinance their loans at lower interest rates, a move that could save tens of millions of borrowers a combined $14.5 billion in the first year.
Posted on May 20, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — We know American politics are dysfunctional. But after a week of scandal obsession during which the nation’s capital and the media virtually ignored the problems most voters care about—jobs, incomes, growth, opportunity, education—it’s worth asking if there is something especially flawed about our democracy.
Posted on May 20, 2013
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 20, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on May 20, 2013
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Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 20, 2013
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on May 20, 2013
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By Chris Hedges — We must either defy the corporate state or accept our extinction as a species. We have been stripped of the power to express dissent or effect change. Rebellion is the only way to remain fully human.
Posted on May 19, 2013
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