While Mitt Romney tries to make us believe socialism is evil, working mothers in France are evidence to the contrary; several stories about employers insisting their employees vote for Romney have come to light; meanwhile, activists in Guatemala are peacefully protesting mining in San José del Golfo in spite of violence against them. These discoveries and more.
Posted on Nov 4, 2012
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By Tracy Bloom — Even the world’s largest marathon was no match for the chorus of objections that erupted after it was revealed the race would go on despite the continued storm rescue and recovery efforts.
Posted on Nov 3, 2012
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By Alexander Reed Kelly — Day four of the aftermath of the devastating and deadly superstorm saw a Manhattan eager to get back on its feet.
Posted on Nov 3, 2012
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Hustler Publisher Larry Flynt says he will give Todd Akin the monetary reward if the Missouri GOP Senate candidate can substantiate his controversial comments about rape and abortion.
Posted on Nov 3, 2012
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If Mitt Romney loses Tuesday’s election—a very real possibility given that Nate Silver’s latest forecast gives President Obama an 83.7 percent shot at winning—we now know who to blame it on: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
Posted on Nov 3, 2012
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By Tracy Bloom — A look at the day’s political happenings, including Nate Silver’s case for why President Obama is the favorite in next week’s election, Richard Mourdock’s drop in the latest Indiana Senate poll and Dick Morris’ election prediction backtrack.
Posted on Nov 2, 2012
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By Robert Scheer — Won’t it be great to have someone in the mold of George W. Bush back in the White House?
Posted on Nov 2, 2012
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The initial decision to go on with the event as scheduled did not sit well with some elected officials, first responders, runners and others.
Posted on Nov 2, 2012
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By Joe Conason — When the superstorm destroyed swaths of the Northeast, darkened our largest city and plunged a huge section of the nation into crisis, the anti-government ideology of the tea party Republicans—and its panderers like Mitt Romney—was exposed for what it is.
Posted on Nov 2, 2012
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Did you know that 90 million Americans are planning to not vote on Election Day? While that fact may have eluded you, filmmaker Moore is painfully aware of it.
Posted on Nov 2, 2012
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By Robert Reich — The two most important trends, confirmed in Friday’s jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, are that (1) jobs slowly continue to return, and (2) those jobs are paying less and less.
Posted on Nov 2, 2012
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The nation’s jobless rate ticked up in October, even as employers added 171,000 workers to their payrolls, according to the latest jobs report—the last one before Election Day.
Posted on Nov 2, 2012
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Even in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, neither President Obama nor Mitt Romney discussed the pressing issue of climate change in a pair of CNN op-eds the presidential candidates wrote, making one of their final pleas to voters before next week’s election.
Posted on Nov 2, 2012
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This week on Truthdig Radio: There’s an election Tuesday, and we invite the two main alternative candidates to make a case for why we should take a chance on them in an election that is already too close to call. Also: Mo Rocca and Robert Scheer.
Posted on Nov 2, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — We’ve had two once-in-a-century storms within the span of a decade. Will we finally get the message?
Posted on Nov 2, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Here’s where we have arrived as a country: We are so polarized that even compromise has become a partisan issue.
Posted on Nov 2, 2012
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By David Sirota — New Jersey’s Republican Gov. Chris Christie is a potentially more important political figure than anyone running for the White House.
Posted on Nov 2, 2012
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It should come as no surprise to the non-bigoted crowd that the results of a new study show that lesbians make wonderful parents. But it bears repeating because the Republican presidential nominee seems to think otherwise.
Posted on Nov 1, 2012
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Nate Silver is seen by conservatives as a threat to Republicans this election. It’s not simply because Silver, the statistician behind the New York Times-hosted FiveThirtyEight blog, predicts that President Obama will win the election. Rather, it’s also because Silver is one of the most accurate forecasters out there.
Posted on Nov 1, 2012
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By Tracy Bloom — A look at the day’s political happenings, including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announces his endorsement and another GOP political candidate says something dumb about rape.
Posted on Nov 1, 2012
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By Robert Reich — In truth, no one should vote based on this batch of jobs numbers because a single month’s report isn’t a reliable gauge of which way the economy is heading.
Posted on Nov 1, 2012
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In a media world dominated by mammoth corporations, a progressive, independent news organization has beaten out Fox News on Apple’s ranking of top 10 news apps.
Posted on Nov 1, 2012
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After a brief hiatus because of the superstorm that ripped through the East Coast this week, Jon Stewart returned to the airwaves Wednesday night and lavished praise on the government for its response to the disaster.
Posted on Nov 1, 2012
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