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AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka Fights Racism Against Obama AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka Fights Racism Against Obama

Secretary Treasurer of the AFL-CIO: 'All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.'

Oct 3, 2008 / YouTube

Net Backlash Hinders Bailout Net Backlash Hinders Bailout

With a surge of angry e-mail that sent Congressional servers into meltdown, taxpayers stormed their way into the bailout debate.

Oct 2, 2008 / Feature / Ari Melber

Back Talk: Kenneth Miller Back Talk: Kenneth Miller

Cell biologist Kenneth Miller discusses the dangers of politicized science.

Oct 2, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood

Justice, Bush-Style Justice, Bush-Style

GOP loyalists have taken over the Justice Department and retooled the civil rights division as a political weapon.

Oct 1, 2008 / Feature / Andrew Gumbel

Reality Bites Reality Bites

That McCain and Palin actually have a shot at the White House gives one pause contemplating the future of this country.

Oct 1, 2008 / Column / Eric Alterman

No Exit: Laurence Tribe and ‘The Invisible Constitution’ No Exit: Laurence Tribe and ‘The Invisible Constitution’

Laurence Tribe's new book asks us to consider the "invisible" web of ideas that have grown around the text of the Constitution. But who's to say what it contains?

Oct 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare

Will Letterman and Saturday Night Live Help Defeat McCain? Will Letterman and Saturday Night Live Help Defeat McCain?

If Letterman and Saturday Night Live continue to cast McCain as a liar, it could have a devastating impact.

Sep 29, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Adam Howard

Justice Delayed and Denied at Guantanámo Justice Delayed and Denied at Guantanámo

The Supreme Court's ruling in Boumediene v. Bush affirmed prisoners' right to habeas corpus, but the government is stalling; and such delays may keep detainees imprisoned indefinit...

Sep 29, 2008 / Feature / Aziz Huq

Free Sarah Palin! Free Sarah Palin!

CNN's Campbell Brown slams the McCain campaign for barring their own VP pick from speaking with reporters, a move Brown calls unequivocally 'sexist'.

Sep 24, 2008 / YouTube

Paulson Bailout Plan a Historic Swindle Paulson Bailout Plan a Historic Swindle

Paulson's rescue plan represents a historic swindle--all sugar for the villains, lasting pain for the rest of us. Don't let Wall Street get away with this without enacting signific...

Sep 19, 2008 / Feature / William Greider

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