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Metaphor and Health Care: On the Power to Make Metaphor Into Law
The argument is that if the government can force you to buy one product, it can force you to buy any product - even broccoli.
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GOP Fights for Control of Wisconsin Senate, Calling for Recount and Hyping Voter Fraud Allegations
as the Center for Media and Democracy predicted, Wisconsin Republicans are raising the spectre of
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There Is an Alternative to Capitalism: Spanish City Mondragon Shows the Way
Why are we told a broken system that creates vast inequality is the only choice? Spain's amazing co-op is living proof otherwise.
The Human Cost of Corruption in the US Senate: Cutting Food Stamps While Giving the Sugar Lobby Billions
Itu2019s not a coincidence that the poor u2014 who do not have well-heeled lobbyists at their disposal u2014 lost while the powerful Sugar Lobby maintained its government favors.
The Regulation Monster
The regulation monster is composed of the mounds of bureaucratic paperwork and red tape that strangles businesses.
Afghanistan’s Corrupt Oligarchy
The brothers of Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's incompetent, impossibly vain, and dishonest president, have amassed astonishing fortunes.
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The Real Reason Conservatives Always Win
Progressives need to engage in a values-based strategy that builds trust across the issue silos.
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Monsanto Trumps Food Safety and Democracy (Again)
Monsanto successfully intimidated the state legislature from voting on a bill that would have required GMO labelling.
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Magic and the Machine
What once was sorcery maybe now is science, but the wonders technological of which I find myself in full possession, among them indoor plumbing and electric light, I incline …
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Albert Einstein: Radical Citizen and Scientist
Time picked Einstein as its Person of the Century because he changed forever the way the rest of us saw the heavens and ourselves. But Einstein also represented science's …