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The Right-Wing Zombie Lie About Public Workers That Just Won't Die

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. February 2, 2012.

A new study on government employees' earnings has the Right buzzing -- and some progressive pundits repeating the myth that government workers are "overpaid."

Why Are Americans So Desperate to Marry Off Our Single Women?

Hadley Freeman, The Guardian. December 3, 2011.

A new Atlantic story "marriagability" has stirred the predictable panic about women who stay single.

Politico and the Washington Post Have Become Virtual "Escort Services" for Moneyed Elites

Raw StoryJuly 17, 2009.

More and more mainstream media are brokering cozy relationships between politicians and lobbyists.