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During a segment on women’s evolving roles in the workplace on Meet the Press Sunday morning, GOP political operative and former McCain campaign adviser Steve Schmidt made a compelling case for equal opportunity in American businesses and the country at large, asserting that organizations that do not afford women a place at the table are on the wrong side of history and will, eventually, lose out.

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During an appearance on Meet the Press Sunday morning, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) reiterated his new found openness to providing a pathway to citizenship for young undocumented immigrants who were brought into this country as children. When host David Gregory asked Cantor point blank whether or not he supported the DREAM Act — which “would offer a pathway to citizenship for undocumented young people who attend college or serve in the military” — Cantor avoided giving a direct answer.

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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) is set to announce his support for Obamacare’s optional expansion of the Medicaid program at a press conference on Wednesday afternoon.

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Sheldon Adelson Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, who has donated more than $50 million to Republicans, is now pressuring his casino employees to vote for Mitt Romney. According to the Huffington Post, Adelson’s Management at Las Vegas Sands Corp.

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This Thursday, Romney campaign co-chair John Sununu said that former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsed President Obama because both were African-Americans , despited Powell’s stated justifications being based on Obama’s foreign and economic policy record. Sununu’s comments (which are par for his course ) brought the simmering racial subtext in this election to the fore: anti-black prejudice has spiked since President Obama’s 2008 victory, when the President likely lost three to five points in the popular vote as a consequence of racist voting. To discuss the complex questions surrounding race, identity, and voting, ThinkProgress reached out to Kwame Anthony Appiah , Professor of Philosophy and African Studies at Princeton University and one of the world’s most prominent scholars of race, identity, and politics

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Sens. Bob Casey (D-PA) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) introduced the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act to the Senate today.

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Two years ago, an Idaho woman named Jennie Linn McCormack became pregnant. McCormack lives off of no more than $250 a month in child support payments, the nearest abortion clinic to her home is nearly 140 miles away in Salt Lake City, Utah , and it would charge up to $2000 to perform an abortion. So when she decided to terminate her pregnancy, she obtained an abortion-inducing medication online.

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Mitt Romney’s home state of Massachusetts — where Romney enacted a health care reform initiative that President Obama later drew on as inspiration for his own Obamacare policies — is somewhat of a test case for national health care reform, as researchers examine the impact that increased accessed to insurance has had on the state’s residents. And if Massachusetts is any indication, the Republicans who have already spent 89 hours and $51 million dollars attempting to repeal Obama’s health care law have been concentrating their efforts on rolling back pro-life policies

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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) has given up hopes of setting up a state-run health insurance exchange in his state after members of his party repeatedly blocked plans for the program in the legislature, according to The Detroit News.

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  At 19 years old, I became an unwilling expert on the topic of rape. I learned about rape’s savagery and its psychological trauma

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