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New Players Replacing Newspapers in Seeking Government Info
3 Mar 2015 … Newspapers were once the dominant force in dislodging documents and other records from reluctant federal government agencies, but a new crop of media players, advocacy groups and corporate interests now drive the release of information. Continue reading
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Anne Wortham: Race Relations and “Authenticity of the Self” (Part One)
9 Sep 1988 … Harvard professor, author, sociologist and civil rights commentator Anne Wortham on “social determinism” and her fears about Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision. Continue reading
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These Eight Charts Show Why Racial Equality Is a Myth in America
5 May 2014 … We haven't come very far at all since the Civil Rights victories of the 1960s. Continue reading
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Richard Painter: Full Transcript
4 Apr 2016 … Bill Moyers recently interviewed Richard Painter, author of Taxation Only With Representation: The Conservative Conscience and Campaign Finance Reform and former White House counselor and chief ethical advisor to President George W. Bush. Here is the full transcript of their Continue reading
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Heather Cox Richardson: A Bat-Fax Kind of Day
2 Feb 2021 … Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley, who encouraged the rioters by their willingness to challenge the counting of the certified ballots, are now questioninglaw enforcement officials about their actions during the insurrection. Continue reading
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Policy ‘Intellectuals’ Are Enabling Our Never-Ending State of War
3 Mar 2015 … These academics — eggheads presuming to instruct the mere mortals who actually run for office — are a blight on the republic. Continue reading
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So Tom Hayes Is Guilty. Who Else Is?
8 Aug 2015 … As time goes by, it gets harder and harder to figure out how much of the largest banks’ profits is due to their legitimate operations and how much is due to their tolerance of illegal activity. Continue reading
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We, the Plutocrats vs. We, the People – Saving the Soul of Democracy
9 Sep 2016 … Sixty-six years ago this summer, on my 16th birthday, I went to work for the daily newspaper in the small East Texas town of Marshall where I grew up. It was a good place to be a cub reporter — Continue reading
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Shining a Light on ALEC’s Power to Shape Policy
12 Dec 2013 … Commentary: American Legislative Exchange Council's behind-the-scenes influence peddling should be getting more attention from the Washington press corp. Continue reading
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The Powell Memo: A Call-to-Arms for Corporations
9 Sep 2012 … In this excerpt from Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer — and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, authors Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson explain the significance of the Powell Memorandum, a call-to-arms for American corporations Continue reading