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Energy Voices The richest oil barons in the US
Kennedy takes a look at the billionaires who have benefitted the most from the US oil industry, according to Forbes' recently released rich list.
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Decoder Wire More conservatives plead with GOP to abandon debt-ceiling ultimatum
Congressional Republicans are still threatening to refuse to raise the debt ceiling – but the stance is causing growing anxiety for many within the GOP.
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Robert Reich Why billionaires will still pour millions into politics
As income and wealth become ever more concentrated in America, the nation’s corporations and billionaires will invest even more in politics, Reich writes.
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Robert Reich Fiscal cliff overshadows inequality in the heartland
As Washington fiddles over the fiscal cliff, a larger battle over inequality is being waged all over America, Reich writes.
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Obamacare won't be repealed. States now must act.
As House Speaker John Boehner said this week, the presidential election confirms that the Affordable Care Act 'is the law of the land.' But the fight over 'Obamacare' is not over as states decide whether to craft their own insurance exchange program or leave it to Washington.
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Robert Reich Election 2012: A house divided
We come to the end of a bitter election feeling as if we’re two nations rather than one, Reich writes.
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Robert Reich Romney's lying machine
Every campaign exaggerates and distorts. But Mitt Romney's campaign has a well-financed machine of distortions behind it.
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Prominent climate change denier now admits he was wrong (+video)
Richard Muller, who directed a Koch-funded climate change project, has undergone a 'total turnaround' on his stance on global warming, which he now admits is caused by human activity.
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Robert Reich Is US democracy for sale?
Unprecedented income inequality combined with unlimited campaign contributions means that now, more than ever, the democratic process is under the influence of a small number of very wealthy people. Here's how to stop it.
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Is health care ruling Obama's 'Read my lips: No new taxes' moment?
Republicans are beating up on President Obama because the Supreme Court said the Affordable Care Act is tied to new taxes. But that could be a problem for Mitt Romney given his record in Massachusetts.
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Robert Reich In the age of super PACS, campaign dollars are becoming harder to trace
Big corporations and Wall Street are also secretly funneling big bucks into front groups like the US Chamber of Commerce that will use the money to air anti-Obama ads, while keeping secret the identities of these firms.
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Democrats' campaign chief: US House is 'in range' for takeover
Rep. Steve Israel, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, says Dems have moved within striking distance for winning control of the US House in Election 2012.
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Obama helps re-election campaign and Dems by raising almost $44 million in April
President Obama raised that amount, almost nine million dollars less than what he raised in March, with more than 400,000 people contributing.
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Obama unveils new ad campaign on economic recovery
The President is trying to convince middle-class voters that his re-election poses the best chance for economic recovery.
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Economist Mom Tax policy won't fix the economy on its own
Many tax policy experts spin a simple fairy tale when they talk about how to reform the tax system. They say that we just need to cut tax rates, which will expand the economy, which in turn will reduce the deficit. But unfortunately, in the real world, we face real budget constraints and a real scarcity of resources.
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Super PACs: how a company that opposes them came to create one
CREDO Mobile, a cellphone company that describes itself as 'America’s only progressive phone company,' announced this week that it is mobilizing a super PAC to target tea party candidates.
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Occupy tents removed: The hijacking of the First Amendment
Occupy tents have been banned in New York City. The removal of the Occupy tents represents a betrayal of First Amendment rights.
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The flat tax fraud
Conservatives are pushing the flat tax as a smokescreen. They’d rather not have anyone talk about the unfairness and fiscal absurdity of the current system.
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'Occupy Wall Street' the Left's Tea Party? Maybe, but...
If Occupy Wall Street coalesces into something like a real movement, the Democratic Party may have more difficulty digesting it than the GOP has had with the Tea Party.
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Everybody has an opinion about the Occupy Wall Street movement
As the Occupy Wall Street movement begins its fourth week and spreads around the country, politicians and the public are weighing in. Will it have the staying power of the tea party movement?
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Clarence Thomas and the politicization of the Supreme Court
Justice Thomas has accused others of politicizing the court, but he's guilty of doing so, too.
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Democrats need to fight Republican shakedown
Republicans say that an overreaching government is to blame for the bad economy. Democrats need to step up and counter that message.
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The rising revolution: a perfect storm is brewing
The perfect storm: wealth concentrates at the top, record contributions flood our democracy, and the populace fumes over a government that raises taxes, reduces services, and can't get it back to work.
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America's brewing political storm
America is poised for a political 'perfect storm': An unprecedented concentration of income and wealth at the top, a record amount of secret money flooding our democracy, and a public in the aftershock of the great recession becoming increasingly angry and cynical about government.
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Forbes 400 list: Bill Gates still richest American
Forbes 400: Things are on the up for US billionaires with more than half of them adding to their net worth in a year which once again saw Bill Gates as the richest of them all, Forbes magazine said on Wednesday.
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