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President Obama’s Second Term: Symbolic or Ironic?
MLK's “dream” was never about electing an African-American president.
A Response to Time Magazine: Young People are Not Fragmenting the Pro-Choice Movement
If anything is strengthening the pro-choice and reproductive justice movements, it's the people, regardless of age, who are working outside the traditional power structures.
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US Health Worse Than Nearly All Other Industrialised Countries
U.S. citizens suffer from poorer health than nearly all other industrialised countries, according to the first comprehensive government analysis on the subject, released Wednesday.
What’s Worth Learning: How Outdated Curricula are Failing America’s Students
(Image: Students in class via Shutterstock)It goes without saying that solving a problem begins with a correct diagnosis of its cause. When Michael Gerson, President George W. Bush’s chief …
The Iraq War “Surge” Myth Returns
What was ultimately left behind was not only a devastated Iraqi population but an authoritarian Shiite government.
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Even With the Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance Coverage Remains Unaffordable for Many
Any hopes that large employers would be penalized for failing to offer affordable insurance coverage to the spouses and dependent children of their employees is dashed.
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Ex-Army Officer Accuses CIA of Obstructing Pre-9/11 Intelligence-Gathering
What if the CIA had worked with, instead of against, the military? We will never know.
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ALEC to Attack North Carolina Renewable Energy Initiatives
Renewable energy is under attack. That is, of course, unless its advocates fight back.
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What a Second-Term Obama Can Learn From FDR
In essence, what FDR offered the American people was a new vision for the future.
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The Trillion Dollar Coin: A Debt Solution for the People
We the people need to take back the power to issue our own money, and we can't do it with nickels and dimes.