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  • Who Do TV Pundits Really Work For?
    September 10, 2013
    | Rebecca Hellmich and Peter Hart
    Plenty of pundits play the role of partisan warriors in cable TV studios. But that’s not their real job — or at least not the one where they likely make their real money.
  • Three Infuriating Facts About Wall Street CEOs
    September 10, 2013
    | Alan Pyke
    Five years after the financial collapse led to the Great Recession, a new report finds CEOs who contributed to the crisis are doing just fine (think lots of mansions).
  • The Tea Party vs. Public Libraries
    September 9, 2013
    | David Morris
    The story of one library's struggle with local tea party activists in Kentucky.
  • Americans Still Struggling to Feed Their Families
    September 4, 2013
    | Dr. Mariana Chilton
    A new USDA report released today says that millions of Americans live in food-insecure households. Child hunger expert Dr. Mariana Chilton explains why programs like SNAP and WIC need to be expanded.
  • The Real Job Creators are the Middle Class
    September 3, 2013
    | Robert Reich
    As Congress prepares to reconvene, Robert Reich reminds us what's really at stake for our economy and democracy.
  • The New Temp Economy
    September 2, 2013
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    Low-wage, temporary work is becoming a new normal in post-recession America, and today's temp workers are no longer in it temporarily.
  • Civil Rights Activism and the Generational Divide
    August 30, 2013
    | Reniqua Allen
    Organizer Illai Kenney talks about the challenges that younger activists face in being heard in the modern civil rights movement, and the burdens and benefits of being young and black in America.
  • 'More Women Than We Thought' on Front Lines of Immigration Protest
    August 30, 2013
    | Miriam Yeung
    Miriam Yeung reflects on the involvement of women in the fight to push for fair policies for all immigrants.
  • The Other NRA
    August 30, 2013
    | Steven Rosenfeld
    How the insidiously powerful restaurant lobby has fought mandatory sick leave policies and managed to keep the minimum wage for restaurant workers the same for over 20 years.
  • Wall Street’s Greatest Enemy
    August 30, 2013
    | David Dayen
    What Michael Winston knows about corporate crimes will horrify you. That's why financial giants want to destroy him.