Surprise, Surprise: Wisconsin Voter Caging Stems Back to Koch Brothers'...
Last week, we wrote about a voter suppression plan concocted by GOP and Tea Party-affiliated groups in Wisconsin meant to keep young and minority voters from the polls this November.Think Progress dug...
View ArticleJustice Department Files a Brief Confirming that Islam is a Religion
To the litany of public safety threats resulting from anti-Muslim fear-mongering, add the fact that Justice Department officials have had to spend time writing a brief explaining that Islam is, in...
View ArticleWeb Videos Show GOP Extremists In Their Own Words
People For the American Way has produced four new videos showing the extreme far-right views of four Republican candidates for US Senate: Ken Buck of Colorado; Rand Ron Johnson of Wisconsin; Paul of...
View ArticleCourt Accepts Global Warming Nuisance Case
This morning, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case affecting whether and how corporate polluters can be held accountable for the planetary climate damage they are causing. Several states have sued...
View ArticleEvolving Media Narrative of the Roberts Court
More and more Americans have noticed the Roberts Court's habit of twisting the law in order to benefit powerful corporations over the rights of individuals. As recently as a year ago, the national...
View Article77% of Business Leaders Want Disclosure Laws
Last week, we wrote about the negative reaction some local chambers of commerce have had to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s $75 million spending spree on campaign ads. It turns out small businesses...
View ArticleThe Right's Use of Records Requests to Chill Dissent and Attack Academics
In Wisconsin and Michigan, we are seeing what appears to be the latest right wing tool to intimidate and harass its critics: extensive – and baseless – public records requests against academics at...
View ArticleSupreme Court Seems Likely to Throw Out Global Warming Case
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in a high-profile global-warming case: American Electric Power v. Connecticut. At issue is whether and how courts can hold corporate polluters accountable...
View ArticleOn Climate Change, Oil Industry Pays for Its Own Facts and Its Own Religious...
Recently a group of climate change skeptics released a list of “900+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticism of 'Man-Made' Global Warming (AGW) Alarm." But where did those 900+ papers come from?...
View ArticleNewt and Mitt, Running from Their Pasts
Probable GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are both doing damage control today the disclosure of shocking past brushes with non-extremism.Romney, who has come under fire from...
View ArticlePandering for the Primaries, Pawlenty Tacks Right
Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty officially launched his presidential campaign today in Iowa. Although he has been campaigning in Iowa and New Hampshire for a couple of years now, you may not...
View ArticleHuntsman Polishes His Magic Mirror to Show GOP Voters Whatever They're...
Just who is Jon Huntsman? At this stage, he is whatever anyone hopes that he will be. As he prepares to officially join the gaggle of GOP presidential candidates, his campaign strategists seem to have...
View ArticleSpeaking of Class Warfare…
One of the most absurd things to come out of American politics in recent months is the allegation that the president’s proposal to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans – bringing them back to the...
View ArticleOn Every Issue, Vote the Court
We are seeing increasing recognition of the Supreme Court as a central and critical issue in the presidential election.Teaser Image: We are seeing increasing recognition of the Supreme Court as a...
View ArticleWill the Roberts Court Choke Off Greenhouse Gas Regulations?
The Roberts Court will hear a challenge to the EPA's authority to regulate greenhouse gases from factories and power plants.Teaser Image: The Roberts Court will hear a challenge to the EPA's authority...
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