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McDonald's Employee Arrested After Confronting Executive: "I Can't Afford Shoes For My Children"
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Jessica Desvarieux
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The Real News Network
8 Lawmakers Among 200 Arrested in Immigration Reform Protest
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Democracy Now
104 Current Congressional Republicans Who Voted to Increase Debt Ceiling Under Bush—Without Hostage Threats
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Josh Israel
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Think Progress
Dear President Putin, I Offer Myself for the Arctic 30
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Kumi Naidoo
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Comment Is Free
There's an International Plan to Censor the Internet in the Works -- Let's Stop It in Its Tracks
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Thanh Lam
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AlterNet
OUTRAGEOUS! Intern Can’t Bring Sexual Harassment Suit Because She's Not an ‘Employee,' Judge Says
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Jodie Gummow
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AlterNet
Cheney, Rumsfeld and Other War Criminals Joke About Waterboarding as America Burns
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Joan Walsh
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Salon
Are Americans Dumb? No, It's the Inequality, Stupid
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Sadhbh Walshe
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The Guardian
Headscratcher: Oklahoma Newspaper Apologizes for Reporting Factually Accurate, Investigative Journalism
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Jodie Gummow
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AlterNet
VIDEO: Jon Stewart Slams GOP for Playing ‘Blame Game’ Over Government Shutdown
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Jodie Gummow
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AlterNet
Meteorologist: Why I'll Never Fly Again
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Rebecca Leber
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Think Progress
Families of Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan No Longer Get Money They Are Owed Because of the Shutdown
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Laura Clawson
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Daily Kos
Profiting from the Poor: Outsourcing Social Services Puts Most Vulnerable at Risk
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Nick Surgey, Katie Lorenze
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PR Watch
Is Sean Hannity America's #1 Racist Rehabilitator?
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Steve Rendall
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FAIR
Finding Our Way to Empathy, Passion and Resistance
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Kevin Zeese, Margaret Flowers
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AlterNet
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It May Be Hard to Believe, But GOP Will Become Even More Extreme, Respected Political Forecasters Say

Steven Rosenfeld
AlterNet
Focus groups find the GOP in a battle for its political survival.
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When Giant Banks Pay Fines, Where Does the Money Go? Does It Stop Crime?

Lynn Stuart Parramore
AlterNet
Fines are bigger than ever, but financial firms keep making profits, and the rest of us pay.
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Engagement Rings Are Hardly Romantic -- Sparkly Rocks Are a Reminder of a Time When Women Were Property

Shannon Rupp
The Tyee
Let's not be so sentimental.
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David Byrne Slams the Super-Rich

Sarah Gray
Salon
The Talking Heads frontman says the 1% are driving artists away and stripping New York of culture.
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Janet Yellen: Obama's Second Choice Hands Him a First-Rate Political Win

Heidi Moore
The Guardian
The president's nominee to head the Federal Reserve is historic, economically savvy, and a political slam-dunk.
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Cheney, Rumsfeld and Other War Criminals Joke About Waterboarding as America Burns

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How Private Tech Companies Are Collecting Data on You and Selling Them to the Feds for Huge Profits

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Thanks -- Fundraising Campaign Goal Is Reached

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New Study: American Women Are Dying Younger Than Their Moms

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6 Ways Neoliberal Education Reform May Be Destroying a College Near You

Owen Davis / AlterNet

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Is Sean Hannity America's #1 Racist Rehabilitator?

Steve Rendall / FAIR

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How American Paranoia About Islamic Terrorism Parallels the War on Drugs

Michael Muhammad Knight / Counterpoint Press

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Chomsky: For Almost 70 Years the U.S. Has Been the World Leader in Spreading Destruction and Misery Across the Planet

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Police Shoot and Kill Diabetic After Wife Calls About Pill Overdose

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8 Food Risks Going Unmonitored During the Shutdown

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Michele Bachmann: We Are in God’s End Times

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Why We Should Let the Red States Secede from Obamacare

David Morris / AlterNet

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America's Police Are Looking More and More Like the Military

Michael Shank, Elizabeth Beavers / The Guardian

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12 Warning Signs You'll Get Overworked and Underpaid by an Employer

Martha Rosenberg / CounterPunch

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Meet Former GOP Public Relations Flak Radley Balko, Now a Libertarian Crusader Against Police Militarization

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Bill Moyers: The Right-Wing Govt. Shutdown Is a Sabotage of Our Democracy

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Exposed: How a Lot of the Libertarian Outrage Over Govt. Spying Is Just Shilling for the Private Surveillance Biz

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6 Absurd Right-Wing Lies About Food Stamps

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Why It's Time to Challenge the Chicken Industry

Martha Burk / Other Words

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Why Didn't the Shutdown Cut Funding for the DEA? Its One of the Least 'Essential' Govt. Agencies

April M. Short / AlterNet

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The Striking Challenge of Fracking: Who Does it Benefit and Who Gets Hurt

AlterNet

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5 Depressing Ways That 1%'s Huge Profits Have Broken the Back of America

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Is This the Dumbest Thing a Republican Has Said During the Shutdown Mess?

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Why the Rich and Powerful Have Less Empathy

Kathleen Geier / The Washington Monthly  

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Half the Republicans You Know Are Insane

William Rivers Pitt / Truthout  

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Kids Used to Additives, Pink Slime Complain That Real Burgers Don't "Taste Right"

Lindsay Abrams / Salon

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Online Classifieds Is The Latest Loophole for Gun Nuts To Evade FBI Background Checks

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

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Matt Bors on What Ted Cruz Would Do During Attack of Mutant Hordes

Matt Bors / AlterNet

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Conservatives Pissed About Legal Pot and Gun Laws in Colorado Push Secession

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Class in the Classroom: Why Middle-Income Students Are Being Left in the Dust

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Tea Party Radicalism Is Misunderstood: Meet the “Newest Right”

Michael Lind / Salon.com  

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Why It's So Difficult to Face the Frightening Climate Change Reality

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Unless You're a Very Healthy Rich Person Who Lives in a Cave, the Government Shutdown Affects You

Ana Marie Cox / The Guardian

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Mental Health Patients Will No Longer Be Discriminated Against Under ACA

Viji Sundaram / New American Media

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What Would Our Country Look Like Without the EPA?

David Lillard / Blue Ridge Press

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10 of the Most Appalling Statements From America's Right-Wing Madhouse This Week

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Another Killer Using 'Stand Your Ground' to Defend Shooting a Black Teenage Boy

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Understanding the Culture of White Right-Wing Rage That Produced the Govt. Shutdown

Andrew O'Hehir / Salon.com  

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'Most Men Allow Harmful Shit to Happen to Women, But I Won't Anymore, and Neither Should You'

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America Has Become a "Cheater-Take-All" Nation

William K. Black / AlterNet

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Get Ready for Extra Helpings of Feces, Pus and Chlorine on Your Plate — America is Deregulating Its Meat Industry

Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet

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Our Govt. Pays Millions to City Slickers Who Don't Even Step Foot on a Farm

Jim Hightower / Other Words

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We're Addicted to Economic Growth and It Will Be the Death of Us

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Secret Ballot Initiative Would Slash Retirement Benefits for Public Employees

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The Pitfalls of Early Screening for Autism

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How the Owner of the Company That Handled Edward Snowden's Encrypted Emails Courageously Stood Up to the Feds' Massive Investigation

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The Central Issue at the Heart of America's Growing Education Gap

Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. / AlterNet

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Republicans Finally Confronting Reality: They’re Trapped!

Brian Beutler / Salon.com

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The Food Industry Is Intentionally Keeping You in the Dark About How Much Genetically Modified Food You're Eating

Jill Richardson / Other Words

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Drugs Like Krokodil Are the Result of Irresponsible 'War on Drugs' Policy

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What Would It Mean for Humanity If We Could Prove the Existence of God?

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Is America Teetering on the Edge of the Hunger Cliff?

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In Praise of Lust, Love and Adultery

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