Photo: Patheos In a political season notable for pure nastiness, the release of a funny, warmhearted political commercial was welcome. Even better the ad is damn good: it ostensibly tells the story of how Carl Sciortino, a Congressional candidate in Massachusetts came out to his father. Oh, not about being gay, hey, everybody already knew […]

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(Source: PolicyMic) Last April, Public Policy Polling surveyed the public about 20 well-known conspiracy theories. Not surprisingly, the results revealed a pattern of belief that broke down along partisan lines.   Desperate people use desperate measures. The looming credit default shows how little they believe they have to lose.   For example, while just 28 […]

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  Since last summer, workers at some of the largest and highest-profile low-wage employers in the U.S.—like Walmart and McDonald’s—have joined an open struggle for higher wages, better working conditions, and an end to abusive (and sometimes illegal) treatment.   It seems that commentators unsympathetic to workers employed by Walmart are cherry-picking the figure that […]

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(Brian Williams | Source: NBC News) The government shutdown is, in some ways, a really easy story to understand—if the press wants to report it that way. The Republican House passes a spending bill that would fund the federal government—and defund or delay certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act. The Senate, with its Democratic […]

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(Source: Demos) The debate over America’s federal budget is getting stale—and getting us nowhere, as the latest government shutdown depressingly reminds us. Political obsession over budget deficits has now morphed into legislative extortion. Today, more than ever, we need to refocus the federal “tax and spend” debate—from deficits to inequality. Two researchers from the New […]

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