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How Conservative Interest Groups Are Reducing Unions’ Financial Resources
Right-wing groups have used their deep pockets to pull off a legally sanctioned pickpocket of unions.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s War on Teachers and Children
School closures around the country have been justified by rationales of budget necessity and improvements in education outcomes, but in Chicago as elsewhere communities see no cost savings and …
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What We Owe Michael Hastings
At the time I met him, he was probably by far the most well-known journalist I'd encountered personally. And yet he was so much more approachable and humble than …
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Are Non-Violent Protestors Now Labeled “Terrorists?“
Corporations are trying to use the PATRIOT Act in ways that have nothing to do with Osama Bin Laden because the PATRIOT Act gives transnational corporations the power to …
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A Cure for War – With Limitations
Earlier this week I wrote an editorial proposing a 28th constitutional amendment to abolish war. The NSA scandal, I argue, is tied to the more pervasive problem of violent …
Perspectives on the Surveillance Scandal
It is 1971 and the United States is mired in a losing war in Vietnam. Thousands of young American soldiers are coming back to the U.S. in coffins or …
Turkey Needs a “Labor Rights Spring“
One backdrop to the anti-government protests in Turkey this month is the Erdogan government's repression of workers' rights to organize and strike that has long been a trend in …
Capitalism in Crisis: Our Opportunity for a New System
As the Big Finance capitalism and fossil fuel systems fail and resources become ever scarcer, we will be forced to change our way of life. People are already designing …
The Consequences of Legalizing “GI Jesus Tourette’s Syndrome“
I've often wondered as to precisely how many of the scores upon scores of imbecilic, fundamentalist Christian members of the United States Congress have ever served even one nanosecond …
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From Greenwald to Assange: Prosecuting Our Watchdogs of Democracy
There is a fine line between journalist and traitor in the Obama administration.