Washington politics
ALEC isn't the only "corporate bill mill" that's polluting statehouses and twisting democracy in favor of the rich.
May 23, 2012 Every gain the labor movement has won has been the result of workers' struggles themselves, in spite of Republicans and Democrats.
May 17, 2012 Una y otra vez escucharemos acerca de la "clara opción" en las elecciones de este año, pero casi nada de las enormes similitudes entre ambos partidos.
April 27, 2012 We'll be hearing a lot about the "clear choice" in Election 2012--but much less about the many areas where Republicans and Democrats agree.
April 25, 2012 : Gary Lapon The American Legislative Exchange Council represents the fusion of corporate money, super-rich reactionaries and the right-wing political agenda.
April 23, 2012 : Gary Lapon Barack Obama is talking a lot about the Buffett Rule, but it wouldn't come close to making the rich pay their "fair share."
April 17, 2012 According to the Republican right, Mitt Romney will abandon conservatism like a shaken-up Etch A Sketch. They're wrong about that, too.
April 3, 2012 Can campaign finance reform laws transform U.S. politics, or are they doomed to be evaded by corporate interests?
March 8, 2012 The Green Party mayor of New Paltz, N.Y., capitulated to calls for "law and order" and evicted the local Occupy movement.
March 8, 2012 The media is deceptively claiming that Rick Santorum is mainly supported by working-class whites who share his socially conservative views.
March 1, 2012 A pesar de las poses y bravatas con el presupuesto de Obama, republicanos y demócratas están ambos comprometidos en implementar la austeridad.
February 27, 2012 Ignore the war of words about Barack Obama's budget--the two parties differ only about details, and both are committed to an austerity agenda.
February 23, 2012 : Nicole Colson The spotlight has lurched again in the Republican presidential primaries, and fanatic Rick Santorum is in the center of it.
February 13, 2012 Republicanos y demócratas están cometidos a la defensa de la riqueza y el poder de la élite. Y ¿cómo no? Los líderes de ambos partidos son parte de ella.
February 3, 2012 Republicans and Democrats are both committed to defending the wealth and power of the elite. And why not? The parties' leaders are part of it.
February 1, 2012 : Ben Smith The city government in Charlotte, N.C., have passed a law to restrict demonstrations at the Democratic National Convention.
January 31, 2012 Escuchando a Barack Obama en estos días, pareciera que él fuera un paladín del pueblo contra Wall Street--pero al separar la paja del trigo en lo que dice, otra realidad se sobrepone.
January 27, 2012 There are many things the 99 percent can do to affect this corrupt society, but very few of them center around the ballot box.
January 26, 2012 Barack Obama is portraying himself as a crusader against Wall Street on behalf of ordinary people--but you have to separate rhetoric from reality.
January 25, 2012 It makes no sense to shy away from challenging corporate power in the electoral arena, while calling for such challenges in other ways.
January 24, 2012 Sen. Dick Durbin, who has taken millions from the entertainment industry, is a cosponsor of legislation to restrict Internet freedom.
January 24, 2012 Newt Gingrich and his toxic brew of bigotry and reaction are back in the limelight--and his South Carolina victory says a lot about U.S. mainstream politics.
January 23, 2012 : Dana Mittenbacher My jaw dropped when I read an article by a New York Times editor that asked "Should the Times Be a Truth Vigilante?"
January 19, 2012 Major corporations have teamed up with politicians to push for a law that would place new restrictions on the Internet.
January 18, 2012 In a world run by libertarian Ron Paul, no worker would be safe from abuses on the job.
January 17, 2012
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