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US Democrazy has repeatedly documented Boehner’s rocky tenure as House Speaker. Deep divisions between establishment and Tea Party Republicans had pushed Congress to the brink of fiscal disaster...
November 5, 2015
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11:26 PM
The Lego company does many things well. They manufacture a toy that can withstand 950 pounds of force. They injure anyone foolish enough to walk into a child’s room barefoot. They get this...
November 5, 2015
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11:29 AM
Republicans insist on using the power of the purse to defund a Democratic priority. Democrats stand resolute in resisting the spending cut. A government shutdown looms large, if no agreement is...
October 1, 2015
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7:32 PM
He’s the spiritual leader of more than one billion people around the world (and an important religious figure for another billion or so). He’s visiting a country that, in 1959, declared itself...
September 28, 2015
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12:26 PM
Ban the box! Ban bossy! Ban…the beads? (Better believe it, baby). California will soon join Colorado, Illinois, and New Jersey in banning plastic “microbeads,” or tiny plastic spheres of...
May 25, 2015
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12:36 PM
After President Obama’s decisive reelection, the Conservative Party (UK) hired Obama’s campaign manager, Jim Messina. They sought to recapture an outright majority in the 2015 British elections....
May 25, 2015
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12:35 PM
photo from The Guardian This past week, two events separated by thousands of miles reminded us all of how astonishing–and terrifying–Mother Nature’s power can be. In Chile, a volcanic...
April 27, 2015
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12:50 AM
What every Marylander, American, and human should know. Who is Freddie Gray? Freddy Gray is a twenty five year old Black man who died in police custody. A lifelong Baltimorean, he leaves...
April 27, 2015
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12:38 AM
One trillion dollars and rising. That’s a big number and it belongs to poor college students. In 2012, 70% of graduating students had loan debt at an average of $28,400. One source of the...
April 20, 2015
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1:29 AM
After Washington, D.C. residents approved recreational cannabis use last November, smoke was still in the air over how legalization would proceed. Despite some threats, the bill became law in...
April 16, 2015
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2:55 PM