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Witness for Yemenis at St. Patrick’s
About 20 people gathered in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City to witness on behalf of the 15 Yemeni wedding-goers who were killed by a US …
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A Ploy to Dilute the Democratic Party’s Message
While Third Way wears a Democratic mask, it pushes for policies that are Wall Street fantasies, including gutting and privatizing Social Security.
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Yet Another Reason Internet Voting Is a Terrible Idea: Targeted Attacks Hijacked “Vast Amounts of Data” to Foreign Countries Earlier This Year
Unknown to users, ‘massive security vulnerability’ in Internet architecture allowed massive ‘man-in-the-middle’ rerouting.
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If Crowds Are Wise, Why Isn’t Congress?
Today Congress is dumb, in cognitive diversity one of the dumbest in the world perhaps. But, it can smarten up rather easily on some simple electoral reforms.
Setback for Scalia in Attempt to Curtail Labor Rights
A SCOTUS pass on reviewing a lower court's labor decision leaves intact, for now, one of the few effective ways unions have for organizing traditional workplaces.
Obama Pursues “Occupation-Lite” in Afghanistan
Regardless of whether US troops stay in Afghanistan for ten more years, we can expect the country to be plagued with violence and vanishing rights for women. The only …
The War on Women: The Newly Invisible and Undeserving Poor in America
Strangely, the faces of women have disappeared from the debate about cutting food stamps and have been absorbed into abstract “needy families.”
Fifteen Things That We Relearned About the Prison Industrial Complex in 2013
The engine of the prison industrial complex unfortunately kept on chugging in 2013.
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Learning to Speak Economese
Economese may sound like English, but sometimes there are crucial differences.
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Missile Launching in the Dark
The Air Force's December 17 ICBM launch was to provide “data to ensure a safe, secure and effective nuclear deterrent.” But no one can assure it will be safe, …