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Auto Mileage Reports Should Reflect Reality
With accurate and complete information, buyers can easily choose the cleaner cars that the Obama administration's mileage-and-emissions standards force automakers to build.
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The Time for Burning Coal Has Passed
It's high time to plan the coal phase-out now and show the people in the region a future beyond the inevitable end of dirty fossil fuels.
Greek Crisis and the Dark Clouds Over the American Economy: An Interview With Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
Until Greece, the EU and the United States reorganize themselves politically and economically to support fiscal stimulus policies, the outlook will remain bleak for employment, according to Dimitri B. …
The Cost of Raising a Child to 18 Soars to More Than $245,000
Is it any wonder millennials are opting out of parenting?
Employers’ Opposition to Birth Control Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
The religious right is fighting to allow any business or nonprofit that has a religious person at the helm to be declared a religious employer exempt from governmental mandates.
With This Decade’s Climate Policy, Expect More Warming Than if Nothing Was Done at All
Since 1986, we have emitted as much carbon dioxide as we emitted in the prior 236 years, yet climate policy has only become approximately 13 percent more stringent.
Reflecting on Ferguson: When the Cops’ Safety Is “Number One“
After St. Louis police shot and killed another young black man not far from Ferguson where Michael Brown was killed, law enforcement officials are reiterating that police officer safety …
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Elite Attackers of Public Schools Don’t Admit the Impact of Economic Inequality, Racism on Education
In the Progressive Pick book, ‘Badass Teachers Unite,’ Mark Naison points out that school reform policies scapegoat teachers and represent a brilliant tactic to avoid dealing with the real …
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Undercover in White America: Why Black Rage Is Conscious, Justified and Long Overdue
"I am still ‘undercover in White America.’ Citizens in Ferguson, Missouri are not. And their rage is not ‘senseless’ or ‘visceral’; it is the product of a life full …
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Let’s Treat Assad Fairly – Like Any Other Pro-West Dictator in the Middle East
The US government's unwillingness to overthrow the Assad government in Syria should not be a litmus test of US commitment to promoting democracy and human rights in the Middle …