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The Scams and Sexism Hidden in Your Cable Bill

By Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

The GOP Plan to Flush Your State’s Economy Down the Toilet

By Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Democratic Congressman Destroys GOP Hypocrisy on Looming Budget Cuts

By Aviva Shen / Think Progress

Bill Moyers: Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly and Unfair

By Bill Moyers / BillMoyers.com

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Everything You Heard About the Deficit Falling Is Wrong

Matt Taibbi: Public Unions Need to Stop Poisonous Koch Brothers From Buying Tribune Papers

The 4 Big Ways That Insatiable Corporate Hunger for Profits Has Devastated American Life -- and the World Along with It

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Report: Unpaid Rent Can Lead to Arrest in Arkansas

Natasha Lennard / Salon

Eight Important Programs That Are Already Being Gutted After Two Years of Phony "Crises" in Washington

Travis Waldron / Think Progress

Meet the Heartless Jerk Leading a Project to Eliminate Sick Leave

Laura Clawson / Daily Kos

America Is Far from #1

Eric Zuesse / AlterNet

Making Sure the End of Cannabis Prohibition Benefits the Small Farmer

Doug Fine / AlterNet

Ayn Rand's Gospel of Selfishness and Billionaire Empowerment Is Plaguing America

Thom Hartmann, Sam Sacks / Thomhartmann.com

Members of Congress Feel Student Loan Pain Firsthand

Russ Choma / Open Secrets

Why We Must Rescue the U.S. Postal Service From the Brink of Death

David Morris / AlterNet

What It's Going to Take to Claw Back Middle Class Wealth from the 1%

Les Leopold / AlterNet

Memo to Obama: The 99% Needs a Recovery

Robert Kuttner / Huffington Post

Offshore Tax Havens Robbed States of Nearly $40 Billion in 2011

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Credit Ratings Agencies Are Pimps of Wall Street: It's Time to Ban Them!

Marshall Auerback / AlterNet

14 Reasons to Repeal the Sequester Now

Richard (RJ) Eskow / Blog for Our Future

The Ugly Truth About America's Housing "Recovery" -- It's Wall St. Buying Homes to Rent Back to Their Former Owners

Shabnam Bashiri / AlterNet

Oscar-Nominated 'Amour' Raises Red Flags on Age, Illness and Poverty

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Obsolete Humans? Why Elites Want You to Fear the Robot

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Paul Krugman Destroys the GOP’s Talking Points on Government Jobs

Jeff Spross / Think Progress

A Ground-Eye View of the 'Valley of Deportation'

Jesús E. Valenzuela Félix / New America Media

The Koch Brothers Donated Big Bucks to the Corporate Front-Group ALEC and the Climate-Change-Denying Heartland Institute

Jillian Rayfield / Salon.com

Hysteria Over the Deficit Has Ground the Recovery to a Halt

Robert Reich / Robert Reich's Blog

4 Ways the Super Bowl Sucks For New Orleanians

Matt Reichel / AlterNet

4 Ways the Austerity Obsession in Washington Could Cost You Your Job

Robert Borosage / Campaign for America's Future

Libertarian Developer's Ayn Rand Fantasy Is Detroit's Latest Nightmare

Rick Perlstein / The Nation

Austerity Is Dead: Can Someone Please Tell Paul Ryan and His Deluded GOP Cohorts?

Pat Garofalo / AlterNet

Economy Shrinks -- Here's Why It's Not Bad News ...

Dean Baker / Center for Economic and Policy Research

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