Romney and Obama face off in their first presidential debate next week. Whom do they need to reach? What topics should they address? Are their portrayals of American workers accurate or productive? How should the U.S. respond to Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech about Iran’s uranium enrichment program? The “Left, Right & Center” panelists debate these questions on this week’s show.
Posted on Sep 28, 2012
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Shepard Smith, the indisputable voice of sanity and reason on Fox News, apologized on Friday after the network showed what appeared to be a suicide live on the air during its afternoon programming.
Posted on Sep 28, 2012
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By Tracy Bloom — A look at the day’s political happenings, including more bad news for Mitt Romney, Claire McCaskill’s response to Todd Akin’s sexist remarks and further Republican charges about President Obama’s religion.
Posted on Sep 28, 2012
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Sons can permanently alter their mothers’ brain chemistry and may help defend against Alzheimer’s disease, a new study shows.
Posted on Sep 28, 2012
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Rather than fight its way through court, Bank of America has dipped into its “litigation reserves” to settle a shareholder lawsuit over the dubious methods it used to acquire Merrill Lynch as the credit crisis ramped up.
Posted on Sep 28, 2012
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By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch —
You don’t have to participate in this system, but you do have to describe it and its complexities and contradictions accurately, and you do have to understand that when you choose not to participate, it better be for reasons more interesting than the cultivation of your own moral superiority, which is so often also the cultivation of recreational bitterness.
Posted on Sep 28, 2012
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By Scott Tucker — A woman begins covering a provocative subway station poster with spray paint. Another woman demands to know why she is defacing “an approved message,” and why she has “a right to violate free speech.” The woman replies that she is exercising her own free speech. That’s the short story. Have you already made up your mind about who is right and who is wrong?
Posted on Sep 28, 2012
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Ralph Nader famously argues against choosing between the lesser of two evils, but did you know that between the current president and the last, he might consider the lesser evil to be George W. Bush?
Posted on Sep 28, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Conservative activist circles are abuzz with a new conspiracy theory: Polls showing President Obama with a growing lead over Mitt Romney are deliberately being skewed by the Liberal Mainstream Media so that Republicans will be disheartened and stay home on Election Day.
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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By David Sirota — Ask corporate executives what they really want in a legislator, and they probably won’t use words like “principled” or “well-informed.”
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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Even though drones are killing more civilians in Pakistan than terrorist leaders, they play no role in the U.S. presidential campaigns; California passes a bill legalizing self-driving cars; meanwhile, millionaires like Mitt Romney perpetuate the rags-to-riches tale by denying their roots. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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By Tracy Bloom — A look at the day’s political happenings, including the surfacing of another potentially damaging Mitt Romney video, the latest election forecast and Bill Clinton mulls his election options.
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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Concerned parents in the new film “Won’t Back Down” use an educational “trigger” law to exercise their democratic right to forfeit any influence they might have over their children’s education.
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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By Alexander Reed Kelly — A landmark report published this week by the Climate Vulnerable Forum links neglect of global warming to 5 million deaths and a loss of more than $1 trillion annually.
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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By Ralph Nader —
President Obama should send this open letter to his GOP opponent—pronto!
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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Speaking from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, a weary Julian Assange denounced the Obama administration for exploiting the Arab Spring for political gain during an address to the United Nations via video link on Wednesday morning. Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald and attorney Michael Ratner comment.
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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By Peter Z. Scheer — A new poll shows that Obama will likely win re-election thanks overwhelmingly to female voters. Fight a war with women and you’ll lose, because women have always had to fight harder.
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — For friends of labor, the revolt against the National Football League’s replacement refs is the most remarkable event since the organization of Henry Ford’s car company into the United Auto Workers union.
Posted on Sep 26, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — You may never have heard of Sensata Technologies, but in this election season, you’ve probably heard the name of its owner, Bain Capital, the company co-founded and formerly run by Mitt Romney.
Posted on Sep 26, 2012
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By Robert Reich — Romney’s stories on the campaign trail have been about business successes—people who started businesses in garages and grew their companies into global giants, millionaires who began poor. Curiously absent from these narratives have been the stories of ordinary Americans caught in an economy over which they have no control. At least until now.
Posted on Sep 26, 2012
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By Tracy Bloom — A look at the day’s political happenings, including why Mitt Romney says his heart aches, the GOP is back to supporting Todd Akin and his ridiculous “legitimate rape” comments, and the latest Fox News failure.
Posted on Sep 26, 2012
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The University of California on Wednesday reached an expensive settlement with the 21 UC Davis students and alumni who were pepper-sprayed by campus police during what was otherwise a peaceful demonstration last year in support of the Occupy movement.
Posted on Sep 26, 2012
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Up to 200,000 Greeks took to the streets Wednesday during a general strike that paralyzed the country, marking the public’s first major confrontation with Athens’ 3-month-old coalition government.
Posted on Sep 26, 2012
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