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GOP Plan To Cut OMB Silly Petty Stupid Infantile & Pathetic

Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. Over at TPM, Brian Beutler has a story about House Republican efforts to cut the budget of the Office of Management and Budget. The story is sad and ridiculous: it shows that House Republicans have become just like the kid...

How Activists Score Wins Taking On The Banks

There is some good news in the fight for homeowners and against the big banks. Homeowners who are facing foreclosures because of unfair and often illegal practices by the major financial Goliaths are learning how to organize, how to shame bank executives and how to...

A Politics for the 99 Percent

Appeared in the June 25, 2012 edition of The Nation. Co-written with Katrina vanden Heuvel. This year will feature the most ideologically polarized election since the Reagan-Carter face-off of 1980. A radical-right Republican Party, backed by big-money interests, has...

Progressive Breakfast

MORNING MESSAGE: They Bought Wisconsin. Don't Let Them Buy America. OurFuture.org's Roger Hickey: "Democracy lost in Wisconsin. Gov. Scott Walker kept his job only after outspending the recall movement 8 to 1. And that doesn’t even count the millions spent by...

They Bought Wisconsin Dont Let Them Buy America

Democracy lost in Wisconsin. Gov. Scott Walker kept his job only after outspending the recall movement 8 to 1. And that doesn’t even count the millions spent by secretive third-party groups. Now, they are trying to buy the November elections. To stop them, you need to...

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