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Today, We Are All Journalists

Chris DeVito | Posted 05.03.2012

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Chris DeVito

It's time to start paying attention to what can be done to both reduce the dangers of reporting and increase, if not simply safeguard, basic freedoms. This is important on all days, but especially today, World Press Freedom Day.

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How Corporate Lobbyists Stole the Conservative Brand

Josh Silver | Posted 04.17.2012

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Josh Silver

Real conservative Americans should be seriously irked after the Heartland document leak. Think tanks like Heartland falsely brand themselves as conservative while blindly espousing a free market free-for-all that history proves as untenable.

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Killing Pensions to Benefit the 1 Percent

Lee A. Saunders | Posted 03.13.2012

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Lee A. Saunders

Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, the Pravda of the 1 percent, is at it again, continuing its push to gut the retirement security of millions of middle class workers across the country.

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Believing That a "Meteor" or Some New Accountability System Will Destroy the Educational Status Quo

John Thompson | Posted 02.18.2012

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John Thompson

As the tenth anniversary of No Child Left Behind approaches, the obvious question about bubble-in mania is being asked by Mark Schneider in "Has the Accountability Movement Run Its Course?"

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Getting Real About the Presidential Reality Show

Jeffrey Abelson | Posted 02.05.2012

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Jeffrey Abelson

This increase in debate viewership is a very good thing. Or at least it could be if questions would go deeper -- beneath the surface of mere talking point positions -- to the moral or philosophical reasoning process candidates use to arrive at their views.

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Rogue's Gallery: CNN's Ideologically Rigid, Scandal-Tainted, Ethics-Investigation-Haunted GOP Debate 'Panel'

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 01.27.2012

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Richard (RJ) Eskow

David Addington. Paul Wolfowitz. Ed Meese. It's a Rogue's Gallery of government officials gone wild, a motley crew of the short-sighted, the benighted, and the nearly-indicted. Or, as CNN calls them, "experts."

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Michael Calderone

Is 2012 The Year Of The Debate?

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 11.21.2011

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NEW YORK -- Will 2011 be remembered as the "year of the debate?" That's how CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer recently described the Republican race while se...

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Who's Overpaid, Teachers or the Wonks Who Write About Them?

Shaun Johnson | Posted 01.09.2012

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Shaun Johnson

As the invisible right hand of the market pushes charlatans into the one percent, and into the spotlight on education reform, the left hand is giving educators a giant invisible middle finger.

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Teachers Are Behind Private Sector Peers On Cognitive Measures And Overpaid, Report Says

The American Independent | Mikhail Zinshteyn | Posted 01.02.2012

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A new report published by two conservative think tanks argues the cognitive ability of teachers is on average lower than private sector workers with s...

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Individual Mandate: Republicans Were for It Before They Were Against It. In Fact, It Was Their Idea

Wendell Potter | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: American Enterprise Institute, Health Care Reform, Mitt Romney, Heritage Foundation, Individual Mandate, Cigna, Obamacare, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama, Politics News
Wendell Potter

In the GOP debate Tuesday night, Gingrich acknowledged in an unguarded moment that a core element of "ObamaCare" was a proposal originated by the Heritage Foundation, a powerful conservative think tank.

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School: It's Way More Boring Than When You Were There

Salon | Daniel Denvir | Posted 11.15.2011

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New studies show that the disappearance of art, music and even recess is having a devastating effect on kids Forty-nine million or so American chil...

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GOP Chairman Of Key Committee Criticizes Obama's National Security Policies

AP | By DONNA CASSATA | Posted 11.12.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Republican chairman of the House Armed Services Committee on Monday criticized President Barack Obama's national security policies a...

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Obama's Speech to Congress: So Why Am I Skeptical?

Leonie Haimson | Posted 11.11.2011

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Leonie Haimson

We've witnessed several years of this administration generally unconcerned about rising class sizes and teacher layoffs. The truth is that for the past two years, their priorities have pointed in an entirely different direction.

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Shahien Nasiripour

Financial Crisis Panel Commissioners Leaked Confidential Information To Lobbyists, Report Alleges

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 09.12.2011

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Republican commissioners on the panel created by Congress to probe the roots of the financial crisis leaked documents to partisan allies and shared co...

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Joy Resmovits

Report: Businesses Can't Just Be 'Pawns' In Education Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 08.07.2011

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America's business leaders say they want to fix education, but they don't know how to do so effectively. As a result, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ...

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Dan Froomkin

WATCH: Administration Official's Announcement At AEI Gets Panned

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 07.26.2011

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WASHINGTON -- White House regulatory czar Cass Sunstein rolled out the results of the administration's four-month-long regulatory review Thursday morn...

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Jon Ward

Potential GOP Presidential Contender: Late-Starting 2012 Campaign A 'Happy Surprise'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 07.04.2011

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WASHINGTON – Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels said it is a “happy surprise” that the 2012 Republican presidential primary is taking so long to get goi...

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The Appeal of the Repeal Amendment

Mark Steinberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mark Steinberg

There are several efforts under way to gut last year's landmark health care legislation. The best known of these is the lawsuit brought by the attorne...

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Who's Really to Blame for the Housing Crisis?

Jodie Allen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jodie Allen

Measures are needed to restrain the public as well as the private financial sectors. But it might be easier to enact sensible reforms if the fingers of blame point in a more equitable direction.

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The Wall Street Empire Strikes Back

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

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Richard (RJ) Eskow

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission just released its report, and it's already under attack by the Four Horsemen of the Economic Apocalypse: the Ideologue, the Lobbyist, the Think-Tanker, and the Politician.

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New Book Takes Aim at Ed Reformers and Status Quo Defenders

Justin Snider | Posted 05.25.2011

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Justin Snider

Author Rick Hess argues that we aren't willing to start from scratch in our thinking about what it means to be a teacher in the 21st Century.

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The Bush Tax Cuts and the Republican Cult of Affirmative Action

David Fiderer | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Fiderer

Capitalists believe in rewarding success and punishing failure. Well, we have ten years of performance data on the Bush tax cuts, and they failed by every possible criterion.

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Sam Stein

Conrad Wants All Tax Cuts Extended While Congress Works On Broader Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), one of the most important voices in the ongoing tax cut debate, is supporting a proposal pushed by a prominen...

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Sam Stein

Kevin Hassett, Prominent Conservative Scholar, Calls For Scrapping Bush Tax Rates

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- A prominent member of a major conservative think tank has recommended a resolution to the debate over tax cuts that's unlikely to please...

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Uttering the "C" Word

Asher Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

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Asher Miller

I was intrigued to learn that authors from three politically disparate think tanks--American Enterprise Institute, Brookings, and Breakthrough Institu...

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