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Call it "terrorism"

The shooting in Colorado was, undeniably, an act of terror. We in the media should not describe it by another name

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(Credit: Ed Andrieski)

Recent Stories

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Friday, Jul 20, 2012 4:20 PM UTC

Why aren’t there more Auroras?

A surprising thing about the Colo. is that such shootings don't happen more often: They're easy to carry out

Topics: Aurora shooting

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Friday, Jul 20, 2012 3:10 PM UTC

Columbine’s lessons for Aurora

The school massacre, across town from Aurora, shows why new gun control is not likely to follow tragedy

Topics: Aurora shooting, Colorado, Gun Control, Guns

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Friday, Jul 20, 2012 1:45 PM UTC

America’s grand tax lie

President Obama, Mitt Romney, the media -- why can't any of them tell the truth about tax cuts?

50 Topics: 2012 Elections, Taxes

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Friday, Jul 20, 2012 12:45 PM UTC

Denver shootings suspect ID’d

Officials have identified the suspect in Friday's deadly shooting in Colorado

38 Topics: From the Wires

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Friday, Jul 20, 2012 12:34 PM UTC

Warren vs. Christie?

It would be fitting if they both end up delivering keynote speeches for their parties this summer

21 Topics: War Room

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Friday, Jul 20, 2012 12:26 PM UTC

GOP disowns Bachmann

Republicans condemn the witch hunt; Obama, Romney react to shooting; and other top Friday stories

24 Topics: Election 2012, John Boehner, Michele Bachmann

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Friday, Jul 20, 2012 12:18 PM UTC

High v. low-level leaking

Today brings more high-level classified disclosures from an administration fixated on punishing whistleblowers

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Thursday, Jul 19, 2012 9:51 PM UTC

Bill Moyers on the Disclose Act

Fighting disclosure, killing democracy

Topics: Bill Moyer, Politics

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Thursday, Jul 19, 2012 9:08 PM UTC

Ann Romney’s snobbish snub

Ross Perot suffered for calling black voters "you people," but 20 years on, we're all "you people" to GOP elitists

191 Topics: Ann Romney

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Thursday, Jul 19, 2012 8:47 PM UTC

The outrageous economics of maintaining classified information

And lack of transparency probably doesn't make you any safer

11 Topics: National security, TomDispatch, U.S. Economy

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Thursday, Jul 19, 2012 6:43 PM UTC

She won’t release tax returns to “you people”

Ann Romney loses patience, while a blogger wonders if Mitt's mistake was simply loving to pay his taxes too much

168 Topics: 2012 Elections, Ann Romney, Mitt Romney, Politics, Taxes

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Thursday, Jul 19, 2012 6:37 PM UTC

We’re a country that lets kids go homeless

Family homelessness barely existed until the 1980s. The financial crisis has made the problem worse

54 Topics: AlterNet, Inequality, Poverty

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Thursday, Jul 19, 2012 5:31 PM UTC

Michele Bachmann’s hateful cronies

She's taken the heat for her Muslim witch hunt, but what about the other congressmen who signed her letters?

19 Topics: Islam, Michele Bachmann, Trent Franks

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Thursday, Jul 19, 2012 4:12 PM UTC

The Democrats’ weak link

Their odds of taking back the House are … not good. And the consequences will be significant, even if Obama wins

31 Topics: War Room

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Thursday, Jul 19, 2012 3:49 PM UTC

Obama’s pot problem

Will the president's tough stance on marijuana cost him the crucial swing state of Colorado?

129 Topics: Barack Obama, Colorado, marijuana

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Thursday, Jul 19, 2012 3:32 PM UTC

Rubio condemns Bachmann

Republican Sens. Marco Rubio and Scott Brown joined John McCain in denouncing the congresswoman's Muslim witch hunt

19 Topics: Islam, John McCain, Marco Rubio, Michele Bachmann

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Thursday, Jul 19, 2012 3:30 PM UTC

Presto! The Disclose Act disappears

Republicans in lockstep to block campaign-finance legislation

Topics: Politics

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Thursday, Jul 19, 2012 2:29 PM UTC

Small businesses are not our economic backbone

Getting it straight on job creation

15 Topics: Business, Jared Bernstein, U.S. Economy, Unemployment

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Thursday, Jul 19, 2012 2:13 PM UTC

Chris Christie: Pitbull without lipstick

Sorry, Sarah Palin. The N.J. governor gets to play your attack-dog role in Tampa, savaging Obama to promote Romney

65 Topics: Chris Christie, Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin

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Thursday, Jul 19, 2012 2:05 PM UTC

Is the Al-Assad regime crumbling?

The assassination of top Syrian security chiefs comes as evidence mounts that the regime’s support is crumbling

Topics: Conflict, GlobalPost, Middle East, Syria

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Thursday, Jul 19, 2012 1:50 PM UTC

Abusive “steel sweatshop” returns

The company endangered workers, stiffed creditors, got government contracts and then declared bankruptcy

Topics: AlterNet, Business, Inequality

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