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Crash the Insurance Lobby's Party

The health insurance industry is launching a public relations and lobbying campaign today that is designed to convince people that they are on the side of reform even as they support a status-quo solution suspiciously similar to one pushed by Sen. John McCain and...

Van Jones: How to Win the Green Energy Fight

It’s not just the country’s energy usage that has to urgently move from fossil fuels to new, sustainable energy sources, environmental and social justice activist Van Jones told Netroots Nation participants. The progressive movement itself, he said, has to go “from...

Poisoned Peppers, Poisoned Politics

I was sitting in an Austin, Texas, restaurant, eating a concoction made with corn chips, chili and cheese, when the federal government announced that tomatoes that had been suspected as the source of an e.coli outbreak were now safe to eat. The jalapenos that topped...

School Children Thrown Under the (Private) Bus

It seems that whenever that old cliche applies, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," the Bush administration finds new ways to respond, "We're breaking it. The fix is in." One of the things that the Bush administration is breaking now is public transportation for school...

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