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Banking Industry Endorses Obama's Appointment of Richard Cordray

The Associated Press is reporting that President Obama will appoint Richard Cordray today as the director of the Consumer Finance Protection Agency, all but ensuring a pageantry of exploding heads on the right.

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Alex Amend

Federal Court Victory for Maryland Law Ending Prison-Based Gerrymandering

NEW YORK -- On Friday, Dec 23, a federal three-judge panel unanimously upheld the constitutionality of Maryland’s landmark “No Representation Without Population Act,” which counts incarcerated people as residents of their legal home addresses for redistricting purposes.

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The End of Ethanol Subsidies

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J. Mijin Cha

Make Caucuses More Democratic

Are caucuses paragons of participatory democracy, unrepresentative playgrounds for zealots, both, or somewhere in between?

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Adam Lioz

The Year In Review: New Evidence of Poverty Amid Riches

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David Callahan

Wall Street Journal Advances False Climate Claims, Refuses to Publish Correction

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J. Mijin Cha

The Year In Review: The War on Voting

Laws to restrict or curtail voting spread like wild fire across the country in 2011 with 19 new state laws now in effect.

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Tamara Draut

The Year in Review: Consumers Get A New Watchdog

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau officially opened for business in July 2011.

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David Callahan

Wealthy Congress, Strapped Americans

The Washington Post has a striking analysis of the growing wealth gap between members of Congress and average Americans. It finds that the "median net worth of a member of the House in 2009 was more than 2 1 / 2 times greater than it was in 1984 — $725,00 vs. $280,000 — when adjusted for inflation. . . .
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David Callahan