Elections
The Obama challenge to the banks
January 20, 2010The president has taken a decidedly more combative, populist tone. It's time.
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Massachusetts vote shows people want results
January 20, 2010Yesterday's Senate contest in Massachusetts shows that voters are "frustrated at the lack of action coming from Washington," AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said today.
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Setting the record straight
January 20, 2010Some on the left say the Communist Party USA has no differences with President Obama. Just to set the record straight: we do, and we express them, but we go to great lengths to state them...
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Billionaire wins Chile election
January 20, 2010Sebastian Pinera defeated Eduardo Frei, the candidate of the governing coalition (Concertacion), becoming the first candidate from the right wing to win Chile's presidency since 1958.
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Mass. confusion
January 19, 2010Whether or not Martha Coakley wins the Senate seat today in Massachusetts, the battle for the interpretation of what it all means is already underway.
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