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Hundreds of people gathered in Benton Harbor yesterday to protest the Emergency Manager law that has stripped power from the local government. “Benton Harbor is the new Selma of the 21st century, a battle ground for human rights and civil liberties,“ Mayor Wilce Cooke told a crowd that gathered in the town library before the march. “The whole world is watching us to see what is going to happen here in Benton Harbor

It turns out just under 400 people have applied for relief under a $100 million fund BP set up to compensate rig workers who lost their jobs because of the

This is starting to make the veins in my forehead throb. Sarah Posner finds Vision America’s Rick Scarborough untethering himself completely from reality to

Good news first: The oil spewing from the busted well on the Gulf of Mexico’s seafloor is likely of a light grade that will be easier to clean up than some

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The Republican National Committee is out with a TV ad running in Florida and select national cable networks, and it’s the kind of thing that Republicans might

I almost missed this John Boehner (R-Ohio) comment: “Scrapping the U.S. missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic does little more then empower

At Salon, Sara Hepola performs a true public service by personally testing the value menus of several fast-food restaurants, in an attempt to present the

INA, the French national television archive, has released a 42-minute documentary depicting life in Hanoi during the Vietnam War that contains four and a half

TWI’s David Weigel appeared on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show last night to talk about last weekend’s Values Voter Summit in Washington. In case you missed

Daniel Hay Lewis — who is not HIV-positive but was arrested by the Broward Sheriff’s Office and charged with the criminal transmission of HIV — should be out of custody Tuesday or Wednesday.

Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan -- who is currently campaigning to keep his job -- is accusing Senate Democrats of trying to steal the U.S.

Jimmy Carter is an avid hunter and gun owner who also happens to have once been president of the United States. The combination makes him well-placed in the

As tax season arrives, tougher rules to prevent tax preparers from peddling the wildly expensive loans languish in bureaucratic purgatory.

A super-PAC backing GOP presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry has begun buying ads in the Des Moines TV market, while Perry himself is continuing a media blitz in the Hawkeye State that began in late October. Make Us Great Again has bought $29,813 in airtime at KCCI in Des Moines, the local CBS affiliate and leading network TV station in the state.

As bank-owned foreclosed properties pile up across the country, from abandoned houses in hard-hit neighborhoods to empty big box retail stores in failed strip malls, the fight over holding someone responsible for the brick and mortar mess left behind by the mortgage crisis continues to heat up.

It’s no mystery that the first item on the agenda when Congress returns to Washington next week will be an enormous spending package designed to create jobs and

Colorado Republican Congressman Doug Lamborn has led the charge to strip government funds from public broadcasting , saying that outlets like PBS and NPR are biased against conservative politics and that the news shows are popular enough after 40 years to survive on advertising revenues. Surveys have consistently shown however that, in the era of overheated cable news, Americans like the product that the not-for-profit business model has delivered, ranking PBS , for example, the most trusted institution in the nation

In the spirit of writing more often about climate research, I thought I’d share some new data on the impact of climate change on coral reefs and forests.

The Minnesota Family Council, the lead proponent of a ballot initiative that would add a ban on same-sex marriage to the Minnesota Constitution, removed information from its website on Tuesday that said gays and lesbians engage in pedophilia and bestiality . The Family Council’s president Tom Prichard recently said that he hoped for a “respectful debate.” Opponents of the anti-gay marriage amendment seized on Prichard’s statements and the information on the website on Tuesday called on the Family Council to remove it. “We are sorry to hear that the Minnesota Family Council is talking about pedophilia and bestiality when referring to our neighbors, friends, coworkers and family members.