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The US Should Accept Palestinian Unity
While Palestinians celebrated the reconciliation agreement signed between Fatah and Hamas, the reactions in Washington and Israel were reminiscent of the biblical “weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Major Drug War Hearings in Congress This Week
The hearings come against a backdrop of huge domestic change with respect to the drug war.
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Arne Duncan Has Labeled My School – and Every School in Washington State – a Failure; Cue the Revolt
The ultimate absurdity of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has been visited upon my home state of Washington.
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As Oklahoma Botches an Execution, It’s Time to Talk About Ending the Death Penalty
Isn't it time we take the instance of yet another failed execution attempt to discuss not how to execute people better, but how to get rid of the death …
The Neoliberal Turn in American Health Care
The failings of the Affordable Care Act are rooted in a long shift away from the idea of a truly universal health care.
One of the Koch Family-Controlled Foundations Has Quietly Folded
The Koch family-controlled Claude R. Lambe Foundation (CRLF), one of the routine sources of funding for right-wing groups for more than thirty years has dissolved.
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Reviving Government Of, By, and For the People
The McCutcheon ruling just made our bad campaign finance system worse.
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This Land Isn’t Your Land, This Land Is Their Land: An Empire in Decline (City by City, Town by Town)
Peter Van Buren has been traveling the ever-expanding, ever-rustier Rust Belt taking the temperature of a land with a significant fever. Here's his account.
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The Serendipity of Social Media – Sevim Irmak’s Fight for Her Country
In which the author of “Affluenza” learns the power of social media to help him understand the world beyond his borders, specifically the strange case of neo-liberalizing and fundamentalizing …
In Spite of Corporate Lobbyists, Vermont Residents Organize to Raise the Wage
A movement of low wage Vermont residents are building power, sharing their stories and flooding the statehouse in an attempt to take back their democracy.