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Obama's Big Speech Doesn't Matter

It's what he does afterward that counts.

—David Corn

Could Rick Perry's Climate Denial Fuel Wildfires?

Scientists say that climate change could cause even more wildfires in Texas. Too bad the governor still insists that global warming doesn't exist.

—Josh Harkinson

Mitt Romney Airbrushes His Bain Capital Record

The ex-governor and onetime private equity honcho isn't telling the whole story about the firm he helped start.

—Andy Kroll

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The governor gave big companies hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to create jobs. When they failed to deliver, he fudged the numbers.

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Abortion, gun rights, gay rights, even Shariah law got the cold shoulder.

—Andy Kroll

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—Kate Sheppard

Fox News' Paranoid Alternate Universe

Fox's fans think discrimination against whites is a bigger problem than discrimination against minorities.

—Adam Serwer

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In our exclusive recordings, David Koch introduces the New Jersey governor as "my kind of guy" and "a true political hero."

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Scientists are getting closer to making meat in test tubes. Yay or yuck?

—Kate Sheppard

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The anonymous patrons who have given $1 million or more to the Koch dark-money machine.

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The bad science behind the stuff sprayed on strawberry crops and its impact on the people who pick them.

—Tom Philpott

From the GOP Debate: So What Is the Chilean Model, Anyway?

How a Pinochet protégé helped charm Bush into attacking Social Security.

—Barbara T. Dreyfuss

Mitt Romney's New Economic Plan: Same As His Old One

The former governor's game-changing economic road map is...a heck of a lot like his old road map.

—Andy Kroll

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