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12 Ways Republicans Keep Screwing Over Poor Americans and Womennew

A dozen low-down, dirty, shameful ways the GOP makes it bad to be broke in 21st-century America.
Sacramento News & Review  |  Sasha Abramsky  |  11-15-2013  |  Poverty

Meg Whitman and Jerry Brownnew

Who are they and what do they stand for? Profiling the two candidates for governor of California.
Sacramento News & Review  |  Sasha Abramsky  |  08-23-2010  |  Politics

Extremist Republicans are Crushing Dissent Within Their Own Partynew

Extremist Republicans are crushing dissent within their own party, creating a California state legislature that can’t work. That's not won't work; that's can't work. This ideological extremism is evident in the party, from the national stage to local boards.
Sacramento News & Review  |  Sasha Abramsky  |  01-11-2010  |  Politics

Hiding Out in Sacramento in 1967new

The Summer of Love was centered in San Francisco, but California's Central Valley got its share of hippies, trippers and Panthers, too.
Sacramento News & Review  |  Sasha Abramsky  |  06-07-2007  |  History

50,000 Voltsnew

Taser guns have become a favored control device for local law-enforcement officers, but something's gone wrong with this "nonlethal" weapon. In Sacramento, as well as across the nation, the dead bodies are mounting.
Sacramento News & Review  |  Sasha Abramsky  |  11-17-2005  |  Crime & Justice

War-Zone Pollsternew

Steven Moore set up shop in Baghdad as an opinion pollster and focus-group organizer in the chaotic environs of Iraq.
Sacramento News & Review  |  Sasha Abramsky  |  05-06-2005  |  International

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