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Truth Against the Machine Article: Bernie’s MSNBC Town Hall Shows Working Class GOP Voters Prefer Progressive Policies

March 15, 2017 Bernie Sanders Conservative Economics Environmental Policy Health Policy Partisan Fighting Policy Progressive Truth Against the Machine Leave a comment

Breaking Down the GOP Health Insurance Proposal: Who will Benefit and Who will be Hurt

March 8, 2017 Austerity Conservative Donald Trump Economics extremism Health Policy Inequality Medicare ObamaCare Policy Republicans 2 Comments

CDC Reports on America’s Large, and Growing, Weight Problem

August 8, 2016 Current Events Economics Health Policy Medicare Policy 2 Comments

Panama Papers Expose the Global Elite’s Shadowy Web of Corruption and Tax Dodging

April 5, 2016 Corporatism Corruption Economics Hillary Clinton Inequality International Relations Obama Tax Policy Taxation Trade Trans-Pacific Partnership Trickle Down Economics 2 Comments

The Progressive Cynic’s Case for Bernie Sanders: Part #2

January 27, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Bernie Sanders Civil Rights Economics Educational Policy Health Policy Hillary Clinton Progressive student loans Tax Policy Taxation 7 Comments

The GOP’s War on Middle-Age Whites…No, Really

November 7, 2015 Corporatism Corruption Economics extremism Health Policy Insane Republicans Policy Racism Republicans Social Conservative Taxation Tea Party 4 Comments

First Democratic Debate a Return to Political Sanity, Media Drops Ball in Covering It

October 15, 2015 2016 Election 2016 Primary Bernie Sanders Campaigns Corporatism Criminal Justice Current Events Defense Policy Democrats Economics Elections Foreign Policy Hillary Clinton Immigration Policy Media Policy Progressive Tax Policy Voting 2 Comments

CNN’s GOP Debate Nightmare: Xenophobia, Voodoo Economics, and Ignorance on Parade

September 23, 2015 2016 Election 2016 Primary Abortion Campaigns Conservative Constitution Corporatism Corruption Economics extremism Foreign Policy Insane Republicans Policy political candidates Political Debate Racism Religion in Politics Republicans Social Conservative Tax Policy Tea Party Women's Rights Leave a comment

Shocking and Ominous Statistics on Economic Inequality

July 16, 2015 Austerity Budget Corporate Greed Corporatism Corruption Debt Economic Crisis Economics education Inequality Policy Racism 7 Comments

Fast Track Nears Passage for Trans-Pacific Power Grab

June 24, 2015 Civil Rights Corporatism Corruption Democrats Deregulation Economics Environmental Protection International Relations Internet Freedom Money in Politics Multi-National Corporations Policy Regulation Republicans Tax Policy TPP Trade Deal worker's rights 2 Comments

Beware Hillary’s Feint to the Left

May 27, 2015 2016 Election Civil Rights Corporatism Democrats Economics Elections Hillary Clinton Progressive Voting 5 Comments

How the Right Wing can be Perpetually on the Wrong Side of History, yet Win so Often

May 19, 2015 Conservative Corporatism Corruption Economics extremism Money in Politics Partisan Fighting propaganda Republicans Social Conservative 2 Comments

GOP Helps Predatory Lenders Target Troops

May 12, 2015 banksters Conservative Corporate Greed Corporatism Corruption Debt Deregulation Economics Military Payday Lending Regulation Republicans Video 1 Comment

Progressives and Conservatives Must Unite to Stop the TPP’s Corporate Assault on the American People

May 3, 2015 Congress Conservative Corporate Greed Corporatism Corruption Democrats Deregulation Economics Environment International Relations Money in Politics Obama Progressive Regulation Republicans Trade Trans-Pacific Partnership 2 Comments

Comparing Punishments for Fraud: Atlanta Teachers vs. 2008 Banksters

April 20, 2015 Corporate Greed Criminal Justice Discrimination Economic Crisis Economics education Inequality Racism 7 Comments

A Simple Plan to Cut Military Waste and Reallocate Funds to Programs that Actually Benefit Americans

April 8, 2015 Budget Corporatism Defense Policy Economics education Military Policy Poverty War Leave a comment

The Republican FY16 Budget: A Right Wing Dream that Would be an American Nightmare

March 24, 2015 Budget Deregulation Economic Crisis Economics EPA extremism Insane Republicans Obama Partisan Fighting Regulation Republicans Tax Policy 2 Comments

Making Fines and Fees Less Regressive

March 19, 2015 Criminal Justice Economics Inequality Policy Progressive Taxation 3 Comments

Profitized Policing: When Courts Become Shakedown Rackets

March 9, 2015 Civil Rights Criminal Justice Discrimination Economics Inequality Police Police Brutality Racism Tax Policy 8 Comments

Wall Street’s Manchurian Executives

February 20, 2015 Big Banks Corporatism Corruption Economic Crisis Economics Law and Order Money in Politics 1 Comment

Reaganomics or Rigonomics? The Right Wing’s Nonfactual Economic Ideology

February 9, 2015 Conservative Deregulation Economic Crisis Economics Tax Policy Trickle Down Economics 2 Comments

Three Graphs Paint a Foreboding Economic Picture

December 26, 2014 Corporate Greed Corporate Welfare Economic Bubble Economic Crisis Economics Tax Policy 3 Comments

The Cromnibus is a Bipartisan Goody Bag to Big Money Lobbyists

December 16, 2014 Budget Campaigns Deregulation Economics Environment EPA Military military waste Money in Politics Pollution 2 Comments

The 2014 Election Disaster: What Now

November 5, 2014 2014 Election democracy Democrats Economics Elections Partisan Fighting Policy political candidates Republicans 48 Comments

What Trait is Shared by the American Corporate Elite and the Common Goldfish?

September 5, 2014 Bankers Corporate Greed Corporatism Economic Crisis Economics Inequality Poverty Taxation 2 Comments

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