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Echoing ALEC’s Playbook, the Real Story of Scott Walker’s Tort “Reform“
Walker's first move as governor was to outline ALEC-model legislation.
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Robert Reich: The Wrong Way to Save Money on Health Care
High unemployment has given companies more bargaining leverage over their workers, who have to accept lower real pay and benefits or risk losing their jobs.
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Egypt, Hearing From Obama, Moves to Heal Rift From Protests
Egyptian leader offered condolences, and vowed to bring charges against those who had scaled the embassy walls in Cairo.
Mitt Romney, Monsanto Man
As deliberately vague as Romney is, heu2019s moved publicly in Monsantou2019s direction on the companyu2019s genetically engineered ethanol and farm subsidies, appears aligned with it on labeling.
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Henry A. Giroux | On the Significance of the Chicago Teachers Strike: Challenging Democracy’s Demise
Hopefully, this strike will provide the fulcrum for social movements to take up this fight, remembered not just as a struggle for the future of Chicago public schools, but …
A Tale of Two Chicagos: Teachers Protest Unequal System
In a system as segregated as Chicago Public Schools, where a quarter of a million students go to schools where 90 percent or more of their classmates are black …
Survivor of US Military Rape in Japan Allowed to Pursue Perpetrator in US Courts
Ruling allows Australian woman to collect a Japanese civil judgment against a former US Navy sailor for raping her in Japan ten years ago.
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21st Century Man and the Electronic Halls of Mirrors
Man's 21st century response to dramatic events is not necessarily just to simply interact with it, but to also record it. More and more, we are altering our behaviors …
Haitian Activist Tours US Demanding Housing Rights for the Country’s 400,000 Displaced
Housing activist Reyneld Sanon is beginning a tour in the US to raise awareness about Under Tents, the international campaign for housing rights in Haiti.
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The Love of Light: Gore Vidal, 1925 – 2012
Gore Vidal was renaissance man of letters who wrote award winning novels, essays, stage plays, and screenplays, now achieves the greatest goal of any writer: immortality.