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What Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Death Can Teach Us About Climate Change (Really)
For the State Department to suggest that the Keystone XL pipeline will not have a negative impact on the environment is like Walter White telling Phillip Seymour Hoffman that …
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Snowden on the Dangers of the ‘Privatized’ National Security State, in the Interview the US ‘News’ Networks Didn’t Bother to Show You
Officials were required to offer absolutely no evidence for their extraordinary claims that Snowden was a “Russian agent” on the three major broadcast networks.
War on Iraq: Open Letter to John Kerry
“I feel a moral obligation to do whatever is within my power to help these people who I once hurt.”
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Is Hillary Clinton a Neocon-Lite?
The prospect of a President Hillary Clinton could represent a step back from some of President Barack Obama's more innovative foreign policy strategies.
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Massive Turnout at North Carolina “Moral March” Puts Right-Wing Lawmakers on Notice
Outrage against the North Carolina legislature's racist, right-wing agenda mobilized tens of thousands to participate in Saturday's Moral March in Raleigh.
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Turning the “Tied”? The 2014 Farm Bill and the Future of US Food Aid
US food aid policy has seen remarkably few major changes since it was initiated 60 years ago, in 1954.
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The Prosecution That Isn’t Happening
The usual answers are that no one did anything wrong or, more realistically, that it's too hard to convict individuals in complex financial fraud cases.
The Good Jobs News on the Affordable Care Act
Dean Baker: The ACA is freeing people from health care related job-lock. This is a feature, not a bug.
In the Darkness of Dick Cheney: The Smile of Secret Power
It was Dick Cheney, more than any other official, who set the terms for the post-September 11 world we all share.
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The Latest Attack on Public Sector Unions: Paycheck Protection in Pennsylvania and Missouri
Paycheck “protection” legislation is one of the main anti-union initiatives that conservative activists have promoted at the state level.