The media have free will on whether to cover what potential candidates are doing. But you have free will on whether to pay attention.
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The Death of an Employer Scam
The government cracks down on employers who pretend their workers aren’t really employees.
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After the Midterms: Impeachment?
The rhetoric surrounding the president has always been extreme, but how far could it go this year?
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Daily Meme: Nate Silver’s Fickle Friends
Yesterday, former New York Times numbers nerd Nate Silver-who just launched his own site, FiveThirtyEight.com-set off panic among Democratic leaders by changing his projection about the makeup of the Senate after the midterms from “tossup” to “slight GOP advantage.” Cue the denounciations. In an unusual move, today the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) issued a […]
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What the Koch Brothers Can Do For Liberals
There’s no villain like a president from the other party. But in a pinch, a couple of billionaire brothers will do.
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Disrespecting Your Defender
As he insults the Obama administration, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon weakens his own country.
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The GOP’s Racial Dog Whistling and the Social Safety Net
Republicans’ coded language is as much about riling up animus towards the very existence of certain social programs as it is hate-mongering.
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Daily Meme: Fred Phelps, God’s Gift to Gay Rights
You’ve no doubt heard that Fred Phelps, the terror of Topeka, Kansas, and patriarch of the “God Hates Fags” Westboro Baptist church, died late Wednesday night at 84. While Phelps came to infamy picketing the funeral of Matthew Shepard and countless other gay men, that was only the beginning of his family church’s two-decade hate […]