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Ron Johnson’s Pompous Assumptions: Voters are Ignorant, Colleagues Need Tutoring Ron Johnson’s Pompous Assumptions: Voters are Ignorant, Colleagues Need Tutoring

How hard will it be to negotiate with congressional Republicans? Ask the Republican senator who thinks voters are ignorant about fiscal math.

Nov 12, 2012 / John Nichols

CliffsNotes for Washington CliffsNotes for Washington

How to get yourself to the edge of the fiscal abyss and not jump. 

Nov 12, 2012 / Mattea Kramer and Chris Hellman

Occupy Wall Street Activists Buy Up Debt to Abolish It Occupy Wall Street Activists Buy Up Debt to Abolish It

The Strike Debt movement is planning a Rolling Jubilee—a bailout of the people, by the people. 

Nov 12, 2012 / Allison Kilkenny

Nine-Year-Old Girl Plays Football, Kicks Ass and Maybe Changes the World Nine-Year-Old Girl Plays Football, Kicks Ass and Maybe Changes the World

Sam Gordon has become an Internet sensation after the spread of viral videos showing her shredding Pee Wee football defenses with a series of dynamic touchdown runs.

Nov 12, 2012 / Dave Zirin

An Appeal to the GOP: Stick to Your Principles! Don’t Listen to Pundits! An Appeal to the GOP: Stick to Your Principles! Don’t Listen to Pundits!

We need a choice, not an echo—especially on “legitimate rape.”

Nov 10, 2012 / Jon Wiener

This Week: Seizing the Moment This Week: Seizing the Moment

A progressive surge, a changing American electorate, and Voting Rights Watch 2012.

Nov 10, 2012 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Katrina vanden Heuvel: President Obama and the Rising American Electorate Katrina vanden Heuvel: President Obama and the Rising American Electorate

A record turnout for non–white male voters gave the president a mandate to champion.

Nov 9, 2012 / Press Room

Leading Banking Committee Democrat Backs Warren Leading Banking Committee Democrat Backs Warren

One of the committee’s top Democrats said he wants to see Warren on board, if she wants to be. 

Nov 9, 2012 / George Zornick

Comments of the Week: Our Readers on the 2012 Election

Comments of the Week: Our Readers on the 2012 Election Comments of the Week: Our Readers on the 2012 Election

From our comment threads to twitter to our live chat, our readers sound off on the 2012 election. 

Nov 9, 2012 / Sarah Arnold

Hunger Strike Calls Attention to Mapuche Plight in Chile

Hunger Strike Calls Attention to Mapuche Plight in Chile Hunger Strike Calls Attention to Mapuche Plight in Chile

In southern Chile a dramatic sixty-day hunger strike that left four young Mapuche prisoners near death ended in celebration.

Nov 9, 2012 / StudentNation / Brittany Peterson

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