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Abortions have made life easier for m...

It’s time for pro-choice men to step up — because our choices change their lives, too.

Abortions have made life easier for millions of men
posted on: Jun 25, 2012 | author: sara robinson

Gun fanaticism and rewriting history

Anti-choice activists are really the shock troops of the conservative movement. This isn’t my observation, but...

Gun fanaticism and rewriting history
posted on: Jun 24, 2012 | author: amanda marcotte

The facts behind Obama’s execut...

This week, the Obama administration invoked executive privilege to prevent the release of certain documents to Congress related to Operation Fast and Furious, the arms-trafficking sting gone awry that came to light last year.

The facts behind Obama’s executive privilege
posted on: Jun 22, 2012 | author: cora currier

In it together: The LGBT and progress...

Neither a sitting president nor a majority of Americans supporting marriage equality seemed remotely possible just ten years ago; not impossible, just unlikely to happen anytime soon. If you’d asked me then, I’d probably have said I didn’t expect to see either in my lifetime. Even when considered in the context of more than fifty years of the gay rights movement in America, it raises a question that E.J. Graff: How did we win so much so fast?

In it together: The LGBT and progressive movements
posted on: Jun 22, 2012 | author: terrance heath

Rejecting anything seen as liberal re...

From the everything-is-culture-war files: Yesterday a guest blogger from the Sierra Club posted on Think Progress about the House Republicans’ fit over the transportation bill. Yes, the headline-grabbing aspect of it is mostly the pipeline battles, but the overgrown children that run the Republican party have also decided to whine and cry about other provisions regarding transportation methods they no doubt see as pussified liberal methods that must be stomped out.

Rejecting anything seen as liberal reaches a new low
posted on: Jun 21, 2012 | author: amanda marcotte

Why Republicans worry about hurting c...

Perhaps you’d expect no more from the Republican leader of the Senate who proclaimed three years ago that the GOP’s first priority was to get Obama out of the White House. But Senator Mitch McConnell’s speech Friday at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington is simply bonkers.

Why Republicans worry about hurting corporate feelings
posted on: Jun 20, 2012 | author: Robert Reich

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