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What We Need Now: A National Economic Strategy for Better Jobs
Jobs are returning with depressing slowness, and most of the new jobs pay less than the jobs that were lost in the Great Recession.
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A Big, Unexplored Idea in School Reform
Evidence of the traditional general education curriculum's inadequacy is overwhelming.
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North Carolina State Senator Calls “Moral Monday” Protesters “Moral Morons“
Since April, North Carolina citizens have been gathering at the state capital in Raleigh for ‘Moral Monday’ rallies and acts of civil disobedience to protest the the cruel things …
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Secrecy’s Tangled Web of Deceit
US government officials insist that their secret surveillance techniques are so valuable in fighting “terrorism” that they must be kept completely in the dark - along with the American …
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While We Focus on Keystone XL, Big Oil Is Busy With Other Pipelines
Canadian oil producers seeking to expand existing pipelines to get tar sands oil to the US market.
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Chemical Weapons Experts Still Skeptical About US Claim That Syria Used Sarin
The Obama administration has yet to offer details of what evidence it has and how it obtained it.
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Who Will Watch the Watchers?
Congress should, today, take our national security apparatus out of the hands of unaccountable shadowy corporations and put it back in the hands of publicly-accountable institutions.
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US Government Looks to Trim Massive Penal Code
For the first time in two decades, a task force will look at reforms for the criminal justice system.
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Reformist Said to Have Won Iranian Presidency in Heavy Voting
Hasan Rowhani, the candidate favored by Iranian reformists, won the Iranian presidential elections in a landslide, a source said.
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Accountability for Transnational Corporations Must Be an Active US Goal in the Wake of the Kiobel Decision
The Supreme Court's decision in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum makes it more difficult to bring suit in US federal courts for violations of the law of nations that …