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David Cay Johnston: "The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use 'Plain English' to Rob You Blind"

Headlines for September 19, 2012; Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis: Deal Ending Strike a Victory for Education; Romney's Dismissal of "Dependent" 47% in Line with Tax Policies Favoring the "Country Club" 1%

Headlines for September 18, 2012; Michigan a Key Battleground for Labor Rights with Votes on Emergency Managers, Collective Bargaining; From Guantánamo to NDAA: Obama Admin Bids to Preserve Indefinite Detention at Home and Abroad; Detropia: New Doc Takes Intimate Look at Detroit's Struggle with Manufacturing Collapse, Urban Decay

Headlines for September 17, 2012; Occupy Wall Street Protesters Swarm NYC Financial District to Mark 1st Anniversary of 99% Struggle; Roundtable: After 1 Year, OWS Gives Voice to Resistance of Crippling Debt and Widening Inequality; Occupy Sunset Park: 99% Solidarity Takes Root in Brooklyn Community Where Tenants Stage Rent Strike; After Weekend Protests See 50 Arrests, Protesters Detained in Early-Morning Action on Wall Street

Headlines for September 14, 2012; Could Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Help Romney Win Race? Up to 1 Million Voters Face Disenfranchisement; In Controversial Death Row Case, Pennsylvania Prepares to Execute Man Who Killed His Sexual Abusers; Pittsburgh Ban on Natural Gas Fracking Faces Challenge from State Authorities

Headlines for September 13, 2012; Middle East Protests at U.S. Embassies Spread in Uproar over Anti-Muslim U.S. Film; Islamic Scholar Tariq Ramadan on the Growing Mideast Protests and "Islam & the Arab Awakening"; As U.S. Inequality Widens, Scholar Cornel West and Broadcaster Tavis Smiley Launch Poverty Tour 2.0

Headlines for September 12, 2012; U.S. Ambassador to Libya Killed as Anti-Islam Film Inflames "Repressed Social Forces" Post-Gaddafi; "500 Days": Author Kurt Eichenwald's New Account of How Bush Admin Ignored Warnings Before 9/11; Whistleblower Brad Birkenfeld Rewarded Record $104M for Exposing How UBS Helped Rich Evade Taxes

Headlines for September 11, 2012; Ex-Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman Speaks Out on Karl Rove, Witch Hunt Hours Before Returning to Jail; Thousands Rally in Chicago Teachers' Strike, Pushing Back Against Corporatized Education Reform; Chris Hedges: Dems Owe Chicago Public Teachers Support for "Most Important Labor Action in Decades"; Chris Hedges on 9/11, Touring U.S. Economic Disaster Zones in "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt"

Headlines for September 10, 2012; Chicago Public Teachers Stage Historic Strike in Clash with Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Education Reforms; Striking Teachers, Parents Join Forces to Oppose "Corporate" Education Model in Chicago; Chicago Teachers Strike Could Portend Referendum on Obama Admin's Approach to Education Reform; Infiltrating Occupy: Austin Activists Face Charges for Equipment Provided by Undercover Police; Disabled Athlete, Advocate Eli Wolff on the Overlooked Dynamism & Diversity of the Paralympic Games

Headlines for September 07, 2012; Obama Accepts Democratic Nomination for Re-Election with Appeal for More Time to Bring Change; "Effective Evil" or Progressives' Best Hope? Glen Ford vs. Michael Eric Dyson on Obama Presidency; Accepting Democratic Nomination, Obama Pledges to Revive U.S. Economy While Protecting the Environment; South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool on Obama, Miners and Confronting Islamophobia in the U.S.; Rep. John Lewis, Civil Rights Icon, on Re-Electing Obama and Fighting to Protect the Vote; Ex-Mich. Gov. Jennifer Granholm: "In Romney's World, Cars Get the Elevator, Workers Get the Shaft"

Headlines for September 06, 2012; Sandra Fluke Takes Fight for Women's Health to DNC After Being Insulted for Contraception Advocacy; Lilly Ledbetter, Namesake of Fair Pay Act: From Discrimination Victim to Champion of Wage Equality; NAACP's Ben Jealous on the Voting Rights Battles That Could Roll Back Gains and Decide 2012 Election; As DNC Pushes Through Jerusalem Vote, Critics Ask Why GOP is Dictating the Democrats' Platform; Democratic Donors Withhold Contributions over Absence of Climate Change from Obama Campaign Message; MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry and Activist Kevin Alexander Gray on Obama's Record and Re-Election

Headlines for September 05, 2012; DNC Begins with Fair Pay Advocate Lilly Ledbetter, Mayor Julián Castro and First Lady Michelle Obama; Undocumented Activists Arrested Outside DNC After Cross-Country Journey for Immigration Reform; It's Party Time: Corporations, Donors with Billions at Stake Fund Lavish Events at DNC; At DNC, Ex-Presidential Hopefuls Jesse Jackson and Dennis Kucinich on 2012 Race, Obama's First Term; At GOP Fundraiser with Billionaires, Karl Rove Maps 2012 Strategy and Jokes of Murdering Todd Akin; Black and Latino Southern Voters May Hold Key to 2012 Election as Region Hosts Dems, GOP Conventions

Headlines for September 04, 2012; Ahead of Charlotte DNC, Hundreds Protest Corporate Giants in "March on Wall Street South"; Grassroots Leader Rev. Dr. William Barber on the Fight for Voting, Civil Rights in North Carolina; Baldemar Velásquez Draws on Years of Farm Worker Organizing to Continue Struggle in Anti-Union South; Bright Lights of Charlotte's DNC Cast Shadow Over City's Poor and Marginalized; Diverse Causes Join Forces in Charlotte to Kick Off Week of Protests at DNC; Why Did the Dems Choose Charlotte? Examining Obama's Close Ties to Utility Giant Duke Energy; No Papers, No Fear: Busload of Undocumented Immigrants Defy Risks to Bring Message to DNC

Headlines for August 31, 2012; Backed by Record Campaign War Chest, Romney Accepts GOP Presidential Nomination in Tampa; Top GOP Strategist Karl Rove Loses Cool Under Questioning from "Boss Rove" Author Craig Unger; Clint Eastwood Delivers Rambling RNC Speech Featuring "Invisible Obama" in Empty Chair; Glenn Greenwald on the Justice Dept.'s Rejection of CIA Torture Prosecutions After 3-Year Probe; "Democracy Is Not a Business": Bringing Progressive Voice to RNC, CODEPINK Disrupts Romney Speech; Amy Goodman Questions Top GOP Donor David Koch: Does Concentration of Wealth Subvert Democracy?; The Romney-Koch Handshake: Network TV Misses Revealing Moment Between Nominee & Billionaire at RNC; Key Florida "Stand Your Ground" Backer Bill Bunting Comments on Killing of Trayvon Martin; Near Where RNC Attendees Harassed a CNN Camerawoman, Alabama Delegate Discusses Black Support of GOP; Federal Court Strikes Down Texas Voter ID Law in Ruling That Could Help Decide 2012 Election

Headlines for August 30, 2012; Daughter of Billionaire GOP Donor Sheldon Adelson Pushes Democracy Now! Staff, Seizes Camera at RNC; Matt Taibbi: The Secret to Mitt Romney's Fortune? Greed, Debt and Forcing Others to Foot the Bill; Missouri GOP Delegate Dressed as Lincoln: Brutal Rapes vs. "Rape of Girl or Lady Who's Inebriated"; New York Congressman Peter King: Criminalize Doctors Who Perform Abortion; Government Built It? Louisiana GOP Delegate Grudgingly Praises U.S. Gov't Levee Repair; GOP VP Nominee Paul Ryan Projects Folksy Appeal with Misleading Account of His Record and Hometown; As Walker Rejects Abortion's Relevance in '12 Vote, Hundreds Rally for Reproductive Rights at RNC; L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa & GOP Latino Leader Mario Lopez on Immigration Reform in 2012 Race