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We Need a New Marshall Plan for the Middle East
We need a new strategy to fight terrorism, because the one we're using right now just isn't working.
US Senate Confirms Michael Botticelli as White House Drug Czar
Advocates praise Botticelli for taking steps toward health-based approach to drug policy. DPA issues four recommendations for Botticelli.
Middle Eastern Immolation and American Moral Values
Citizens of a free society (surely no longer our own) have a duty to consider, analyze, understand, and criticize opposing points of view, including most especially those of their …
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Robert Samuelson Is Unhappy That Seniors Get Social Security and Medicare
Robert Samuelson wants to raise the retirement age and cut Social Security and Medicare benefits.
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Jindal: From Rhodes Scholar to Dangerous Demagogue
Muslim-baiting will not end until a Republican leader steps forward and takes on the likes of Jindal or Palin or Bachmann.
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Greece: Building Solidarity and Post-Capitalist Production?
While SYRIZA has been the center of the Greece story in recent months, the continuing development of the solidarity economy, as well as the infusion of new technology, could …
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Housing Enforcement Group Sues M&T Bank for Discrimination
The unusual lawsuit draws on secret videotapes and recordings to argue that the bank's loan officers discriminated against blacks, Latinos and Asians who applied for mortgages.
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The Record Setter: Dr. Carl Hart
“High Price” debunks the myth that there is a direct connection between crime and drug use.
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Drug Violence Leaves a String of Ghost Towns in Mexico
“What happened here is the usual: the town fills up with police and the army, but nothing happens,” says one mayor.
A Moral Imperative: Release Aging and Long-Term Prisoners
Long-term prisoners who've committed violent crimes are found to be the least likely to offend again, so why do we keep them locked up until death?