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Want Healthcare Reform? Pick Up The Phone.

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Yesterday, over 300,000 people picked up the phone and called Congress demanding health care reform this year. The phones ringing off the hook certainly did not go unnoticed by Congress.

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Afghanistan: An Election Without Results

Abdulhadi Hairan | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

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Abdulhadi Hairan

Everyone here is impatient to know the outcome of the much-discussed, controversial Afghan elections, but two months have passed and still no one has a clue about the real situation.

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GOP Gaining Advantage In 2010

washingtonpost.com | Dan Balz | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Midterm Elections, 2010 Elections, House Democrats, David Axelrod, The Democracy Corps, Senate Democrats, Democratic Party, Obama Democrats, Newt Gingrich, Election, Politics News

Three forces threaten Democrats in the 2010 elections: populist anger on the right, disaffection in the middle and potential disillusionment on the le...

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Bloomberg-Thompson Debate: Bill Thompson Jr. Calls Michael Bloomberg A Liar

AP | Posted 10.13.2009 | New York

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NEW YORK (AP)- The Democrat trying to unseat popular billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg lobbed multiple attacks at him during their first debate Tues...

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Who Cheats More: Democrats or Republicans?

Auren Hoffman | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

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Auren Hoffman

We can devise a simple research project to see which side cheats more, Republicans or Democrats. Just look at recounts of federal and state races.

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Canada To Avoid Immediate Election

AP | ROB GILLIES | Posted 11.15.2009 | World

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TORONTO — One of Canada's opposition parties said Tuesday it will prop up Prime Minister Stephen Harper's minority Conservative government in a ...

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McDonnell On Gays: Robert McDonnell's Comments On Gays Resurface After Thesis Uproar

Washington Post | Amy Gardner | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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As chairman of the House Courts of Justice Committee, McDonnell sat at the head of the proceedings, with his Senate counterpart next to him and commit...

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And the Oscar for Best Voting System Goes to ... Instant Runoff Voting

Rob Richie | Posted 09.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Instant Runoff Voting, The Oscars, Casablanca, Academy of Motion Pictures, Election, Entertainment News
Rob Richie

Before 1945, the Academy picked classics like Casablanca and Gone with the Wind. But it switched to plurality voting because it can encourage Oscar upsets.

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Iran: Male Clerics Call for Justice While Female Parliamentarians Advocate for Discriminatory Laws Against Women

Sara Dehghan | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

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Sara Dehghan

In Iran, appointing loyal hardline females to ministries does not translate into women's equal rights. It is another cunning strategy by Ahmadinejad's government to fool the world.

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This Will be a Difficult Seat to Fill

Byron Williams | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senate, Civil Rights, John F. Kennedy, Chappaquiddick, Apartheid, Americans With Disabilities, Massachusetts, South Africa, Election, Ted Kennedy, Politics News
Byron Williams

For the first time since 1952, it is possible someone whose last name is other than Kennedy will hold that Senate seat from Massachusetts.

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Iran: So Far Away, But Also Mine

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 09.26.2009 | Home

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Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

My cousin in Iran called my uncle often in the early days of mass protests and police crackdowns. Those moments full of hushed tones and furrowed brows would snap us back to the reality of the situation.

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I Want You to Sell Your Body!

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

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Joe The Nerd Ferraro

We grouse about Congress people prostituting themselves all the time. If we believe in health care, we may have to do the same, as it were.

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It's Our Democracy, Stupid!

Reverend Billy | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green

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Reverend Billy

PlaNYC, the future-as-greenwashing that has such radiance in the mind of Mike Bloomberg -- this is supposed to be the map of our city's future.

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The Next Obama? Help Send Community Organizers to City Hall

Dan Cantor | Posted 08.30.2009 | New York

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Dan Cantor

America finally has a community organizer in the White House. What if we put a whole slate of community organizers in City Hall in New York?

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Who Needs Elections?

Dan Collins | Posted 08.22.2009 | New York

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Dan Collins

There are six statewide offices in New York, and right now four of them are occupied by people who didn't run for them.

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Afghan Women Train for the Trail

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon | Posted 08.14.2009 | World

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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Of the nearly 3200 candidates running for Provincial Councils in Afghanistan, 328 are female. The idea is to help women run for and win office, and to grow the ranks of women serving in government.

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Can We Register Voters Better? Yes.

Wendy Weiser | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Democracy, Voter Registration, Election, Voting, Politics News
Wendy Weiser

Voter registration is the gateway to voting. But our registration system relies on 19th century practices, and, leaves millions of eligible voters out of the political process.

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Sarah Palin, Preparing to Run

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

After reading Palin's interview in Runner's World, I doubt she'll be off the political stage anytime soon. A presidential campaign is a long race that requires a lot of endurance.

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Three Moral Issues of Health Care

Jim Wallis | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

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Jim Wallis

With an issue like health, deeply personal but of great public concern, the faith community has a unique and important role to play: to define and raise the moral issues that lay just beneath the policy debate.

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The Beginning of the End of the Iraq War?

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

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Chris Weigant

If our soldiers are out of Iraqi cities, and the Iraqi security forces start shouldering more and more responsibility as a result, do we really need all 130,000 troops sitting in their bases?

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The Hypocrisy of Bill Maher

Jeff Norman | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

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Jeff Norman

Bill Maher blasted the Democratic Party for kowtowing to its corporate paymasters, and bemoaned the lack of real liberals on ballots and television.

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Power and Protest, in Iran and at Home

Jesse Larner | Posted 07.24.2009 | World

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Jesse Larner

American conservatives who believe that any resistance to tyranny somehow must carry an American trademark would do well to remind themselves that theocracy is incompatible with liberal democracy.

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Mongolia: A Young and Hopeful Democracy

Ming Holden | Posted 07.23.2009 | World

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Ming Holden

Mongolia may be a post-communist country landlocked between Russia and China, but it is also a country of Buddhists with a unique attitude that lends itself to the Democratic philosophy.

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I Caught a Case of Iran Fever - And it's now a Pandemic

Taufiq Rahim | Posted 07.21.2009 | World

Read More: Democracy, Iran, Tehran, Youth, Middle East, Election, Protest, Iran Election, Iran Protests, World News
Taufiq Rahim

The fight is not for the West and against Islam nor vice versa, but is rather a struggle for freedom pure and simple.

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The Supreme Leader's Gamble: Iran's Crisis Deepens

Robin Wright | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

Read More: Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Middle East, Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Election, Khamenei-Speech, World News
Robin Wright

In taking an unyielding stand behind the results of the contested vote, Iran's supreme leader put his own position and powers on the line too.

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