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Fracking Waste Could Go to North Carolina Coastal Towns If Ban Is Lifted
Despite longstanding legislation that bans dumping toxins deep underground in North Carolina, oil lobbyists are attempting to overturn the law.
Job Growth Picks Up Steam in February
Employment rates of workers without high school degrees are near pre-recession levels.
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Sequester This! A Story of Sabotage and Theft
‘The sequester,’ like ‘the fiscal cliff’ and the ‘debt ceiling,’ is an intentionally crafted, make-believe crisis.
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What Rand Paul and Ted Cruz Exposed About the Drone Strikes
Americans are learning the truth about the executive's elastic definition of
Profiting From Genocide: The World Bank’s Bloody History in Guatemala
Report: The World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank supported genocide in Guatemala.
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The Premise of Digital Surveillance Precludes Scholarship
Looking up ‘jihad’ in the dictionary does not a jihadist make.
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Thoughts on Making the Bomb
“American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer” is a fascinating and complete history of the bomb.
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Austerity: Another “Policy Mistake” Again
When will we attack the structural roots of crisis?
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Bad Ideas That Will Never Die
To paraphrase an old line about Vietnam, sometimes it seems to me like we haven't spent four years discussing the response to economic crisis; we've spent one year discussing …
Mission Unaccomplished: Why the Invasion of Iraq Was the Single Worst Foreign Policy Decision in American History
The saddest truth, says Van Buren, is that when the US marks the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, we still don't get it.