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Scamming Students Scamming Students

At a time when public institutions face debilitating budget cuts, 86 percent of the for-profit colleges’ revenue comes from taxpayers, to the tune of $32 billion in the mos...

Sep 6, 2012 / StudentNation / Gizelle Lugo

Clinton Touts Welfare Reform. Here’s How It Failed. Clinton Touts Welfare Reform. Here’s How It Failed.

Clinton may be explainer-in-chief, but he left out the gaping hole welfare reform has made in the safety net.

Sep 6, 2012 / Bryce Covert

A Nun on the Podium Takes Apart Paul Ryan A Nun on the Podium Takes Apart Paul Ryan

One of the most powerful, and most powerfully-received speeches of the DNC was that of Sister Simone Campbell, one of the "Nuns on the Bus."

Sep 6, 2012 / John Nichols

The Racial Politics Behind the Right Wing’s Poll-Watching The Racial Politics Behind the Right Wing’s Poll-Watching

A new report from the Brennan Center for Justice spells out the hyper-partisan and racially charged impact of efforts to police the polls in November.

Sep 6, 2012 / Voting Rights Watch and Brentin Mock

Howard Dean: The Case for Obama Howard Dean: The Case for Obama

The former DNC chair predicts an Obama victory, says the future of the Supreme Court at stake.

Sep 6, 2012 / Ari Berman

A Middle-Class or Minimum-Wage Matriarchy? A Middle-Class or Minimum-Wage Matriarchy?

If women really do become this country’s breadwinners, it’ll likely mean more families slip from the middle class.

Sep 6, 2012 / Bryce Covert

Dumb and Dumber Dumb and Dumber

Obama’s “Smart Power’ foreign policy not smart at all.

Sep 6, 2012 / John Feffer

The United States Must Abandon All Support for the Syrian Rebellion The United States Must Abandon All Support for the Syrian Rebellion

The crisis in Syria veers toward regionwide sectarian explosion.

Sep 6, 2012 / Bob Dreyfuss

Bill Clinton Forms Barack Obama’s More Perfect Union Bill Clinton Forms Barack Obama’s More Perfect Union

Republicans did not want to mention their former president in Tampa. But in Charlotte Democrats followed their former president’s lead. And it could take them all the way in ...

Sep 6, 2012 / John Nichols

Elizabeth Warren to Romney: ‘Corporations Are Not People’ Elizabeth Warren to Romney: ‘Corporations Are Not People’

At the DNC, Warren offered a powerful defense of economic populism and a stinging rejoinder to Romney & co.

Sep 6, 2012 / Ari Berman

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