- Reich: The 'Paid-What-You're-Worth' Myth
- GOP Lawmaker Says Sick Leave, Equal Pay Bills Make Women 'Look Like Whiners'
- Low-Wage Workers Are Finding Poverty Harder to Escape—"For those at the low end of the hourly wage scale, even meeting basic household needs can be a stretch, and roads out of poverty are scarce." NYT
- Bill Gates: Yes, robots really are about to take your jobs—"As for what governments should do to prevent social unrest in the wake of mass unemployment, the Microsoft cofounder said that they should basically get on their knees and beg businesses to keep employing humans over algorithms."
- This J.C. Penney Worker Was Fired For Telling The Truth About Its 'Fake' Prices
- Revealed: Apple and Google’s wage-fixing cartel involved dozens more companies, over one million employees
- Krugman: That Old-Time Whistle—"American conservatism is still, after all these years, largely driven by claims that liberals are giving money away to 'those people.'" NYT
- Krugman: High Fallutin' Nazis—"Here comes another billionaire who thinks that anyone who talks about income inequality is a Nazi; this time it's Ken Langone, co-founder of Home Depot." NYT
- Dems hit back after House Speaker Boehner accuses N.Y. and other states of 'cheating' food stamp rules—"House Speaker John Boehner accused New York and four other states of 'cheating' and 'fraud' for sidestepping federal cuts to food stamps through what critics call a 'loophole' in the laws. But Democrats say the states had to step in to keep people from going hungry."
- Paul Ryan's Irish Amnesia—"Talking the familiar, heartless language of hunger economics." NYT
- Tax-Hating States Totally Fine With Taxing The Poor
- The Missing White Poor—"Guess who makes up a plurality of America's poor?"
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren and others question lack of prosecutions for mortgage fraud
- Despite Promises To Fight Mortgage Fraud, DOJ Basically Ignored It, Then Claimed Success With Faulty Stats
- Wells Fargo foreclosure manual under fire—"A lawsuit claims it is an elaborate guide telling lawyers how to produce key documents that are missing."
- The Tea Party and Wall Street Are Friends After All
- The 1% have gained back their recession losses and then some
- 'Then They Fight You' -- Why The 1 Percent Is In Full Panic Mode
- Former bank employee pleads guilty to stealing over $2 million from customers
- Appeals court upholds Fed's debit card 'swipe fee' limits
- Oakland to pay Iraq War vet $4.5 million for Occupy shooting
- The FBI Is Hiding Details About An Alleged Occupy Houston Assassination Plot
- Why the GOP Won't Change—"A year after their "autopsy," the recommendations haven't been—and won't be—followed."
- Groucho Marx's Republican Party—"Why the GOP is in more trouble than you think." Politico
- Tea Party Candidate Gets Turned Away By The GOP For Spreading Racist Views
- Republican House Candidate Who Said Autism Was the Result of God's Anger Over Gay Marriage Just Won Her Primary
- GOP Lawmaker Thinks Businesses Ought To Be Able To Deny Service To Black People
- AL Republican outraged at teaching of 'The Crucible' because 'McCarthy was right'
- Republicans Versus an Informed Public—"Answering the American Community Survey is the civic duty of everyone, yet some House Republicans seem to think it should be voluntary. That would make the survey's data useless." NYT
- John Oliver Teases New HBO Show By Mocking GOP's 'Millennial' Ads
- Bill Maher: Most GOP Voters 'Just Corporate America's Useful Idiots'
- Corporate America Is Hiding $2 Trillion In Profit From The IRS
- The great corporate cash-hoarding crisis—"Companies are sitting on mountains of liquidity, thanks to government policies; the losers are the economy and all of us."
- Koch Group, Spending Freely, Hones Attack on Government—"Americans for Prosperity, backed by the Koch brothers, is using a data-driven approach as it pursues its overarching goal of changing the way voters think about government." NYT
- David Vitter defends Koch brothers—"Sen. David Vitter stepped up this week to defend the billionaire Koch brothers from Democrats' repeated attacks [NYT], concluding that they are 'two of the most patriotic Americans.'" Politico
- The biggest lease holder in Canada's oil sands isn't Exxon Mobil or Chevron. It's the Koch brothers. WaPo
- The House has voted 54 times in four years on Obamacare. Here’s the full list. WaPo
- This guy knew when Obamacare enrollment would hit 5M before anyone else. Now he's predicting 6.2M. WaPo
- The House GOP's Obamacare Alternative Won't Curb Health Care Costs—But It Will Enrich the Insurance Industry
- Koch Group Yet Again Fails Fact Check On Obamacare Horror Story
- Politifact: Americans for Prosperity claims people are getting less at a higher cost under Obamacare—False.
- The real goal of all those anti-Obamacare ads—"A new report suggests they're all about protecting the Koch brothers' bottom line." WaPo
- South Carolina lawmakers fail in attempt to undo Obamacare
- Paul Ryan Gets An Earful From Constituent Who Will Save Hundreds Under Obamacare
- Fox News's Bret Baier corrects Obamacare mistake WaPo
- Kane shut down sting that snared Phila. officials—"The Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office ran an undercover sting operation over three years that captured leading Philadelphia Democrats, including four members of the city's state House delegation, on tape accepting money.... Yet no one was charged with a crime." The money was for a "vote against a bill that would require voters to show identification at the polls, the sources said."
- Wisconsin Voters Under Attack—"Wisconsin's legislature approved a bill to limit absentee ballots." And early voting.
- Ohio Mistrusts Democracy—"Republicans again pass restrictive new laws making it harder for their opponents to vote." NYT
- Federal Judge Hands Republicans In Kansas, Arizona A Big Win In Voting Rights Fight—All about suppressing the vote [NYT].
- Right-Wing Extremists in Montana File for Legislative Races as Democrats
- Ga. Congressman slams door on Ch. 2 reporter when asked about campaign coach
- Former offender acquitted in Iowa voter fraud case—"A former drug offender who believed her voting rights had been restored when she cast a ballot last year was acquitted of perjury Thursday, a public rebuke of Iowa's two-year investigation into voter fraud."
- Who's Buying our Midterm Elections?—'In the coming weeks, the Supreme Court is expected to issue another big decision on campaign finance, one that could further open the floodgates to unfettered and anonymous contributions, just as the Citizens United case did four years ago."
- Scalia's looming fiasco: Obscure new SCOTUS case may be worse than Citizens United. Salon
- Nate Silver: What the Fox Knows
- Paul Gosar Wants To Ban Members Of Congress From Flying First Class On 'Taxpayer Dime'
- Personal FBI flights for Holder and other Justice officials went unreported—"Personal FBI flights for Holder and other Justice officials went unreported." WaPo\
- After Casino Mogul Throws Him Big Money Fundraiser, Graham Seeks Internet Gambling Ban
- Government's Empty Buildings Are Costing Taxpayers Billions
- Are Malls Over?
- Obama Proposes the End of Pennies—Nickel for your thoughts?
- Federal Reserve to Unveil a Redesigned $100 Bill—"The new $100 bill will have modern and colorful anti-counterfeiting features, overcoming problems that postponed its debut for more than two and a half years." NYT
- Laundering money — literally — could save billions of dollars
- How the U.S. Mint Made Its First-Ever Domed Coin
- UK's new 12-sided £1 said to be the world's most secure coin
- Facing drought, California farmers rally against regulations limiting water supplies
- Brazil drought raises concerns about World Cup water supply
- Fracking and water pollution: what we can learn from the US experience
- North Carolina to withdraw Duke Energy settlement over coal ash spill—"North Carolina regulators say they have asked a judge to withdraw a proposed settlement that would have allowed Duke Energy to resolve environmental violations by paying a $99,000 fine with no requirement that the $50bn company clean up its pollution."
- Hog Wild: Factory Farms Are Poisoning Iowa's Drinking Water—"Millions of pigs are crammed into overcrowded barns all across the state, being fattened for slaughter while breeding superbugs—all to feed China's growing appetite for Spam."
