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Does President Obama Want to Cut Social Security by 3 Percent?
If the backdrop to this question is not immediately clear, then you should be very angry at the reporters who cover the campaign.
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GOP Farm Bill Obstruction Could Defund 90 Percent of Department of Agriculture
The 2012 Farm Bill is still languishing in the House, with GOP leadership in the chamber intentionally preventing action on the legislation for political reasons.
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Ryan Runs Into the Truth
Whether you run a marathon or run for office, facts and integrity matter.
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I Will Occupy
One year from now, I will be a father for the first time. My child will be six months old, and living in a world fraught with peril. For …
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Chicago Teachers Continue Strike; Emanuel Injunction Denied
Injunction seeks to make the strike illegal by proving in court it is a clear and present danger to CPS students.
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Occupy is Back! Occupy Rosh Hashanah
Why on Rosh Hashanah? Isnu2019t this mixing politics and religion? Well, in Judaism there is no such separationu2014the entire Torah is the story of a liberation struggle against oppression …
Why Your Health Is Bigger Than Your Body
New findings explain how politics, economics, and ecology can help or hurt our bodies.
On Haiti, Jared Diamond Hasn’t Done His Homework
Whereas Diamond simply disregards Israelu2019s economic strangulation of Palestine, in the case of Haiti, Diamond adds a gratuitous dose of blame, suggesting that Haitiu2019s centuries of misery are due …
Michael Winship | Can Congress Come Out and Play?
Members hustled back to the capital all right, not to get much accomplished for the good of the nation but to party down at events designed to scrape every …
“Targeting” the Poor in Thailand
u2018Inflation targetingu2019 has become the cause for much controversy in Thailand. The issue in question is clear. When a countryu2019s central bank functions with the belief that it can …