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Despite Some Changes, Colorado Gun Laws Remain Lax
Colorado law still prohibits local governments from restricting gun rights in several significant ways.
Religious and Free-Market Fundamentalism Have More in Common Than Their Fans in the Tea Party
Because fundamentalists are ideologically driven, they tend to reject basic facts that do not comport with their ideology.
Are Americans Better Off Than Their Parents?
A new report from the Pew Economic Mobility Project has some observers celebrating how well Americans are doing compared to their parents. But the reportu2019s figures, upon closer inspection, …
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Twelve Killed in Shooting at Colorado Theater
A gunman armed with three weapons opened fire in a theater crowded with families and children at a midnight showing of the Batman movie u201cThe Dark Knight Risesu201d in …
Police Kill Suspect; Occupy SF Activists Falsely Linked
Once again, the media have stumbled upon a case of law enforcement malfeasance, printed the police's official line and falsely insinuated that Occupy was somehow involved in a killing.
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Election Countdown 2012: Obama’s Hostility to Marijuana Reform May Jeopardize His Re-Election, and More
In today's Election Countdown 2012 news: Obama could be jeopardizing his re-election bid with a dismissive and even hostile approach to marijuana reform, Elizabeth Warren is being considered as …
Titanic Banks Hit LIBOR Iceberg: Will Lawsuits Sink the Ship?
Billions of dollars were skimmed from cities all across America by colluding to rig the public bids on municipal bonds, a business worth $3.7 trillion.
“Seconds Away From Midnight”: US Nuclear Missile Pioneers on Okinawa Break 50-Year Silence on a Hidden Nuclear Crisis of 1962
Six months prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis, however, a parallel drama had played out on the other side of the world as the U.S. secretly brought near-identical missiles …
Border Posts Fall Into the Hands of Syrian Rebels
Rebel fighters seized all four border crossings with Iraq and one into Turkey, while also claiming for the first time to have captured a pocket of Damascus after intense …
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Review of Henry Giroux’s Twilight of the Social: Resurgent Publics in the Age of Disposability
What are the limitations and possibilities for reclaiming democracy as a radical idea amid the ruins of neoliberalism? This is the fundamental question posed by Henry Giroux's important new …