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Another day, another misleading and false attack on clean energy funded by Koch Industries, which makes billions of dollars from a variety of polluting industries.

A basic reason that people break rules is that they believe they can get away with it. And you're more likely to think that you can cheat without consequence if you know that watchdogs won't bark, much less bite.

This observation doesn't just jive intuitively with our understanding of human nature, it also squares with lived reality. Fewer police means more crime. No drug testing in baseball means an epidemic of steroid use. Rare audits mean more tax cheating. And so on.

Public approval of Congress is now at its lowest level ever recorded by modern polling, so it's no surprise that Governor Rick Perry might find this branch of government a juicy target; Perry said yesterday that he favored cutting pay for members of Cong

WASHINGTON— The assault on the right to vote witnessed in 2011 is historic in terms of its geographic scope and ferocity, according to new testimony submitted by national policy center Demos to today’s House Judiciary Committee forum entitled “Excluded from Democracy: The Impact of Recent State Voting Law Changes.” 

Blatant redistribution, the argument goes, may fly in Europe with its strong class identity, but is a non-starter here, where the value of individual self-reliance is dominant. Is this really true?

Occupy Wall Street has, in the words of John Paul Rollert, “come to embody a common sense that something is wrong with American capitalism.” The problem Rollert points to is not with capitalism itself, but with a particular American version that has ceased to work for broad cross-sections of its population. Given America’s Depression-level income inequality and near-record levels of public and private indebtedness, it is extremely tempting to focus on bad outcomes as the problem.

Governor Rick Perry made a very good point yesterday as he barnstormed talk shows to try to overcome his "oops" moment in Wednesday night's debate. He said: “This campaign is about ideas — not about who’s the slickest debater or whether anyone’s made a mistake or not.”

Do Republicans in Congress care about creating jobs -- which polls say is the number one issue for voters -- or about ideological purity? The ongoing debate on Capitol Hill over President Obama’s $447 billion jobs package offers a crystal clear answer to that question.

Forget the fact that Perry had a "brain freeze" last night when asked at a GOP debateto name the three government departments he wants to ax . Everyone sometimes forgets what we were going to say and one of the worst things about politics today is that people get ridiculed and attacked for being perfectly human.