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The Unfinished March
Fifty years after the civil rights movement, poor black communities are still suffering from mass inequality.
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How Boehner Gets a Win-Win
Immigration reform has put Speaker John Boehner between a rock and a hard place.
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Charter Schools, the Invisible Hand, and Gutless Political Leadership
The commitment to charter schools is a coward's way out of facing reality and doing something.
Ecuador’s New Communications Law: A Democratic Model?
The law guarantees for diversity and plurality and the need to regulate the media in the public interest.
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The High Road to 21st Century Economic Success
On the high road to the future, we would use government institutions to put people to work in support of the common good.
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The Fossil Fuel Industry Must Pay for Its Sins
The deaths on Sunday of 19 wildfire fighters in Arizona is just the latest example of the overwhelming negative externalities associated with this nationu2019s addiction to fossil fuels.
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Sadism as Politics: Rick Perry, Paul Ryan, Anti-Abortion Politics and Kicking the Poor
The common denominator in redistricting, austerity policies, voter restriction policies, criminal justice and anti-abortion policies is the privileged (pathological) need to maintain power and control.
The Grass Roots Battle to End the Drone War
Long time peace activist Kathy Kelly is co-coordinator of the Chicago-based Voices for Creative Nonviolence. Kelly just returned from her twelfth trip to Afghanistan, and is now trekking 195 …
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A Concise Answer to Ido Aharoni’s Query “Why Boycott Israel?”
Ido Aharoni, Israel's Consul General for New York, and also “the founding head of Israel's brand-management team and the originator of the Brand Israel movement” recently wrote an op-ed …
Eavesdropping On the Planet
The above is the title of an essay that I wrote in 2000 that appeared as a chapter in my book Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only …