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"There has to be a grass roots campaign to win it."

The attempt to take the nation’s politics hostage is still underway. Only the wording of the ransom note has changed.

Poor Bulgaria. Once again the Germans are headed her way—this time armed with nothing more than a change of currency and the policies of austerity that go along with it.

"A Shooting that Demands an Explanation"

Federal Budget, Social Security, Medicare, Cuba blockade, inequality and drones

ILWU members have maintained strong, round-the-clock picket lines for months since UGC locked out members of ILWU Local 4 in Vancouver in February and CGI locked out ILWU Local 8 members in Portland in May.

Former North Carolina GOP precinct chair Don Yelton stirred controversy with his racially charged interview on The Daily Show about the state's voter ID law, but are his views on the law really out of line with the party's?