Dylan Ratigan

Et Tu, Touré? A Critic of White Privilege Is Oblivious to Marital Privilege

Bella DePaulo | Posted 05.07.2012

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So those are my two choices? Either I'm providing for my family or I'm out to boost my ego, my status, and my self-image? Touré, there are around 100 million adults who are not married, and that's just counting the ones in the U.S.

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Still a Wizard, a True Star: A Conversation With Todd Rundgren, Plus Tonight Alive's "Starlight" (Exclusive)

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.06.2012

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"I wrote a song about my high school girlfriend who broke my heart and have been milking it ever since. The irony of it is, it's the very first song I ever wrote and it's the song that's pinned on my back, kind of like 'kick me.'"

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30 Million Jobs Tour Heads to College: What's Your Experiment?

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 04.23.2012

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I've found myself more enthusiastic than I've been in years as I've shifted my attention from D.C./NYC to cities both burgeoning with ideas and struggling with the excruciating pain that Washington and New York have inflicted on them.

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Auction 2012: How Greedy Bastards Rig Our Trade Rules

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 04.03.2012

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For Greedy Bastards in banking and trade, globalization is a great slogan to use for selling off American technology and pocketing the profits, while an American government stays prostrate.

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Auction 2012: Bought Health Care

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 04.02.2012

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What I've found is that the same incentives distorting banking, energy, education, and government are distorting our very bodies. For American health care providers, the goal isn't to get you healthy, but to get you paying.

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Throw the Bums Out and Ban Them From Lobbying

Jane White | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Bank of America, Scott Brown, Elizabeth Warren, Get Money Out, Dylan Ratigan, Kirsten Gillibrand, Politics News

This corruption is why nothing gets accomplished on Capitol Hill, whether it's campaign finance reform or financial dis-services reform.

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WATCH: MSNBC Host Explains Famous Rant

The Huffington Post | Katherine Fung | Posted 01.25.2012

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Dylan Ratigan appeared on "The View" on Tuesday to discuss the motivation for calling out big banks in his new book "Greedy Bastards." Viewers got a p...

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A Climate of Change: Corporate Greed, Creativity, and the Shift

Tiffany Crawford | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Creativity, Deepak Chopra, Women in Business, Dylan Ratigan, Corporate Greed, Corporate America, Arianna Huffington, Business News

Companies that refuse to take heed are killing themselves, and the harder they fight the Shift, the faster they will go down. There is no need to fight them, as an opponent anyway.

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Dylan Ratigan, Arianna Huffington, and Deepak Chopra Want Money Out of Politics

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 03.13.2012

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"We are being bamboozled by lobbyists, it's time for democracy to be restored," Deepak Chopra told his guests, Arianna Huffington and Dylan Ratigan at a DeepakHomeBase (DHB) event this week.

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Arianna Joins Deepak Chopra In Conversation

Huff TV | Posted 03.12.2012

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Arianna Huffington joined spiritual thinker Deepak Chopra and author and television host Dylan Ratigan on Tuesday night for a conversation about pover...

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Arianna Sits Down With Deepak Chopra And Dylan Ratigan

Posted 03.11.2012

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Arianna Huffington is joining spiritual thinker Deepak Chopra and author and television host Dylan Ratigan on Tuesday night for a conversation about m...

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Ratigan Charges That Romney's Business Experience Is 'Not Capitalism'

Posted 01.09.2012

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MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan appeared Monday morning on NBC's "The Today Show" to discuss his new book on money and politics, "Greedy Bastards," which wil...

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Occupy Wall Street Makes Official Call To Amend Constitution

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 01.06.2012

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Efforts to amend the Constitution to declare that corporations are not people and money is not speech gained support in two notable New York forums th...

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Can Occupy Overturn Citizens United? "Dear 99%ers..."

Mark Green | Posted 02.13.2012

Nothing could enhance American democracy more than if Occupy Wall Street helped enact the 28th Constitutional Amendment to end the pretense that corporations are people who speak with money. The 99% can stop the privatization of government.

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Dylan Ratigan Releasing New Book (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.09.2011

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MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan provided a trailer exclusively to The Huffington Post for his new book, Greedy Bastards: How We Can Stop Corporate Communists...

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Why Dylan Ratigan's "Get Money Out" Campaign Gets it Right

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 01.16.2012

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To understand why Dylan Ratigan's "Get Money Out" campaign is getting it right, let's take a quick look at the history of Supreme Court decisions on campaign finance.

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WATCH: MSNBC Contributor Reveals That He Was Sexually Abused

Posted 11.15.2011

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As first noted by Mediaite, MSNBC contributor Jimmy Williams revealed a startling trauma from his life on Tuesday's "The Dylan Ratigan Show". Durin...

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Climbing Everest: Get Money Out's Next Steps

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 01.15.2012

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We live in a system of legalized bribery. You and I have committed to end it. This is a monumental task that will be achieved exclusively by our ability to form a massive, singularly focused coalition. And that's what we're doing.

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Cheat Chat on MSNBC Celebrates the 1%

Jeff Kreisler | Posted 01.02.2012

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You see, we 1% understand The Big Picture. Give us the money and we'll take care of everything. Relaaaax. Go hang out in Zuccotti Park, get some fresh air in Oakland. We got this.

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WATCH: David Wood Talks With Dylan Ratigan About Beyond The Battlefield

Huff TV | Posted 12.27.2011

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David Wood, senior military correspondent for The Huffington Post, stopped by "The Dylan Ratigan Show" on Tuesday to talk about Beyond the Battlefield...

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Limbaugh Tears Into MSNBC Host

Posted 12.17.2011

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Rush Limbaugh attacked MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan on his Monday show, saying that Ratigan was actively advising the Occupy Wall Street movement behind t...

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The Krugman/Stiglitz Army Is on the March (and It's Too Late for Michael Bloomberg to Stop It)

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 12.14.2011

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Whether or not the the #Occupy Wall Street protesters explicitly adopt policy proposals or only generate political energy for the spirit of them, the Krugman/Stiglitz Army is at last on the march.

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Dylan Ratigan's Campaign Finance Reform Push

www.observer.com | Kat Stoeffel | Posted 12.12.2011

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Say what you will about the drugs and the drum circles, the Occupy Wall Street movement has brought out a more radical side of Dylan Ratigan, MSNBC’...

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Why Is the Obama Administration Enabling Retirement Rip-offs?

Jane White | Posted 12.12.2011

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Rather than requiring employers to make 401(k) plans as generous as pensions, the Obama Administration appears to be duping older workers into thinking they are ready and simply need a product that will stretch their puny nest egg over a lifetime.

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One Wave, One Message -- Restore Fairness. End Bought Government

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 12.06.2011

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Zuccotti Park in New York is just the beginning. Like a magnet pulling iron out of sand, folks from all walks of life are rejecting our auction-democracy in order to give America the debate it deserves.

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