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The billionaire-hugging right-wingers on the Supreme Court, who began poisoning the American political process in 2010 with their Citizens United decision, dumped a truckload more Zyklon B into voting booths last week with their McCutcheon ruling. While in Citizens United they awarded corporations the right to secretly...
Big league universities want the athletes they recruit to see them as substitute moms and dads. Don’t worry, they say, be happy, ’cause we’ve got you covered. It’s all very appealing – until an athlete is seriously injured in practice or a game. Then the athlete...
In the olden days, buying votes was a risky business. That’s not because the purchaser faced felony charges. No, the real peril was that the guy bribing voters wouldn’t get what he wanted. The process was too indirect. The man with “walking around money” would tell...
I’m a big fan of “House of Cards.” So it’s an added pleasure that this brilliant series now has some relevance to my work life. For the past seven years, I’ve urged Washington to stand up to China on its currency manipulation and other policies...
Republicans despise America’s poor and jobless. The GOP made that perfectly clear by repeatedly denouncing them and cutting food stamps and unemployment benefits. But last week, Republicans revealed that they also hate hard-working Americans! Republicans condemned President Obama for proposing to extend mandatory overtime pay to...
Shareholders Call on Board to Address Human Capital Issues at North American Subsidiaries (LONDON) – Shareholders in National Express Group PLC (NEX: LN) have submitted a shareholder proposal to the company, calling on the Board of Directors of the U.K.-listed multinational transport corporation to improve oversight...
“Shut up!” That’s what Republican darling Darrell Issa told a Democrat who tried to speak at a public hearing last week. Issa didn’t deign to actually talk to a Democrat; instead he cut the microphones so the Democrat couldn’t be heard. Rep. Issa, R-Calif., silenced Rep....
All those rights Americans cherish, those fundamental human and political freedoms protected by the U.S. Constitution, Republicans contend those aren’t really inalienable rights or anything solid or permanent like that. See, according to the GOP, some Americans are sub-citizens who don’t deserve rights equal to those...
Official Statement of Teamsters Airline Division Director Capt. David Bourne (WASHINGTON) – The following is the official statement of Teamsters Airline Division Director Capt. David Bourne on the United States Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) 2014 Aviation Workforce report, “Current and Future Availability of Airline Pilots”: “I’m pleased...