News & Politics

Milwaukee Makes Five (Cities So Far): Fast Food Workers Strike for Higher Pay and Union Rights

By Laura Clawson / Daily Kos

This wave of strikes hitting multiple fast food restaurants (and, in some cases, retail stores) in a single city for a day, then showing up in another city, is truly unprecedented.

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State Decides Hermaphrodite Baby's Gender with Irreversible Sex-Assignment Surgery

By Dan McCrue / Courthouse News

Chris Hedges: Monitoring of AP Phones a "Terrifying" Step in State Assault on Press Freedom

By Amy Goodman, Chris Hedges / Democracy Now!

How the 1% Touches Everything We Own

By Alex Kane / AlterNet

Military Quietly Grants Itself the Power to Police the Streets Without Local or State Consent

By Jed Morey / AlterNet

Hospitals Should be Care Providers not Loan Sharks

7 Teenagers Arrested for End-Of-Year Water Balloon Prank

6 Key Takeaways From the Stupidity and Reality of IRS 'Scandal'

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Joe Scarborough and Other Republicans' Complete Hypocrisy on the IRS and Political Speech

Olivia Nuzzi / AlterNet

WATCH: Stewart Ridicules Obama for Apparent Cluelessness on Administration's Latest Scandals

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Armed Gun-Rights Leader Compares Himself to Gandhi

Rebecca Leber / Think Progress

New App Helps Consumers Avoid Koch Industries and Monsanto Products and Trace Corporate Ownership of Everything in Their Shopping Cart

Janet Allon / AlterNet

Deja Vu? Abuse Allegations for a Second 'Sexual Assault Prevention Officer' in the Military

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

Americans Who Think Benghazi is Worse Scandal Ever Can't Even Find it on a Map

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

The Latest in Atrocious Govt. Anti-Drug Propaganda: Turning Drug Addicts into Zombies

Sharda Sekaran / AlterNet

Why Do Christian Megapastors Keep Getting Caught in Sordid Sex Scandals?

April M. Short / AlterNet

One Company Has Enormous Power in the Breast Cancer 'Market' -- and Their Pricey Test Could Be Costing Lives

Irin Carmon / Salon

Outrage Grows Over Justice Department Seizure of Associated Press Phone Records

Greg Mitchell / The Nation

Bush Used the IRS, FBI, CIA and Secret Service to Go After Opponents -- Where Was the Fox and GOP Outrage?

David Sirota / Salon

Elderly Man Allegedly Dies in Court Fighting Wells Fargo 'Wrongful' Foreclosure

Matt Reynolds / Courthouse News

College Execs have Private Jets? New Report Finds Public University Presidents Live Large

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Hedge Fund Partner Earns $33.5 Million For a Year While Losing Almost 10% of Fund Money

Alex Kane / AlterNet

What Will It Take for Us to Recognize That the Way We Live Could Be Destroying Life as We Know It?

Marty Kaplan / AlterNet

The Real Scandal: Official Washington Goes Nuts Over IRS Doing Its Job

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Japan Mayor Says Wartime Sex Slaves Necessary

Al Jazeera

Republicans Outraged Over AP Spying Scandal Killed Legislation That Would Have Prevented It

Jed Lewison / Daily Kos

South Carolina Republican Wants to Draft All Males Over 17 in Large Militia

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Stephen Colbert: Fox News Tries to Infect America With Its News Herpes

AlterNet

Rupert Murdoch: Journalism's Jack the Ripper

Eric Alterman / The Nation

Student Shot by School Employee, As Conservatives Call for More Guns on Campus

Alex Kane / AlterNet

GOP Director of Hispanic Outreach Quits and Becomes Democrat

Adam Peck / Think Progress

Meet the Former Aide to Dick Cheney and Wife of a Mitt Romney Advisor Who Happens to Be at the Center of the Benghazi Scandal

Alex Seitz-Wald / Salon

Welcome to the Brave New World of Corporatized Medicine: Just Hope You Don't Get Sick!

Yves Smith / Naked Capitalism

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