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Traffic Ticket Camera Company Channels Kafka, Threatening Court Appearances, Even Though "No Such Court Exists"

Courthouse News

In fact, the plaintiffs say, a state judge has told the city that its system is illegal.

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Catholic Church Finally Decides That Austerity is Bad

By Yves Smith / Naked Capitalism

Merida And The Disturbing Disney Princess Syndrome

By Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

Smashing the Absurd Myth That More Guns Make Us Safer

By Sean McElwee / AlterNet

How Contractors Have Raked In $385 Billion to Build and Support Bases Abroad Since 2001

By David Vine / TomDispatch

How America's National Security Apparatus -- in Partnership With Big Corporations -- Cracked Down on Dissent

US Marshals Hold Innocent Family At Gun Point, Tell Them Not to Move Even After They Realize They've Got Wrong House

Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn Demands Tornado Relief Be Offset by Cuts Elsewhere

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A Handy Reference Guide on Who is Donating to Corporate-Style Education Reform

Jessie B. Ramey / Yinzercation

It's Not Easy Being Green: Are Some of the Biggest Enviro Groups Giant Sell-Outs?

Jason Mark / The American Prospect

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

Laura Clawson / Daily Kos

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

Dan McCrue / Courthouse News

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

Amy Goodman, Chris Hedges / Democracy Now!

How the 1% Touches Everything We Own

Alex Kane / AlterNet

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

Jed Morey / AlterNet

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

Synthetic Marijuana Turns People Into Zombies, Says Atrocious Govt. Anti-Drug Propaganda

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

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