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The 5 Myths That Weigh Down Paul Ryan’s Opportunity Proposal
8 Aug 2014 … Paul Ryans new plan includes a few positive proposals, but a poverty activist writes that it's doomed to fail because of its reliance on discredited, right-wing poverty myths. Continue reading
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‘American Winter’ Arrives at Capitol Hill
6 Jun 2013 … Three Oregonians living on the margins testified at a congressional subcommittee hearing last week on the state of the American Dream and how economic policies are affecting the middle class. Continue reading
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The Failed War on Drugs in Mexico (and the United States)
3 Mar 2015 … Like the Islamic State, the Mexican drug cartels’ power has increased as the result of disastrous policies born in the USA. Continue reading
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Morning Reads: Clinton Shrugs Off Benghazi Hearing; AGs Take on Climate Law; Billionaire Tries to Buy Tax Break
10 Oct 2015 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
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The Second Amendment Was Never Meant to Protect an Individual’s Right to a Gun
12 Dec 2015 … In common with the other big rightward swerves by the Roberts Court, the 2008 ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller was an aggressive exercise in mendacity. By upending the well-established meaning of the Second Amendment, the Court made the country less Continue reading
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Will Disillusioned Millennials Bring an End to the Reagan-Clinton Era?
9 Sep 2013 … New York mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio’s victory is an omen of what may become the defining story of America’s next political era: the challenge, to both parties, from the left. Continue reading
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The GOP’s Big Problem Is Big Money
10 Oct 2017 … There are lots of explanations for why Republicans have backed themselves into a corner both legislatively and politically, unable to either enact an agenda or to contain a populist uprising that now poses as great a threat to GOP incumbents Continue reading
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An Anniversary Many Would Like to Ignore
3 Mar 2013 … It's been a decade since the start of the Iraq War, but many of those responsible would rather not reminisce about the true roles they played. Continue reading
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‘Look for Power in the Shadows’: Watch Sheldon Whitehouse Shine Light on ‘Dark Money Operation’ Behind GOP Supreme Court Takeover
10 Oct 2020 … Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse used his 30 minutes of allotted time during Tuesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing not to ask questions of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett—who repeatedly dodged the straightforward questions of other lawmakers—but to deliver a Continue reading
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How Not to Interview Mitch McConnell
6 Jun 2016 … “I only talk to the press if it’s to my advantage,” writes Mitch McConnell, one of the most powerful men in American politics, in his new book. Last week, the advantage was evident. The Senate majority leader is on a Continue reading