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Health Care Jujitsu
Not surprisingly, today’s debut Supreme Court argument over the so-called “individual mandate” requiring everyone to buy health insurance revolved around epistemological niceties such as the meaning of a “tax,” …
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Nomi Prins Responds to Greg Smith’s Goldman Resignation
Today, I have received dozens of media requests and hundreds of emails regarding former Goldman Sachs executive, Greg Smith's gutsy, and internationally resonating, public resignation. I applaud Smith's decision …
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French Muslims Fear Stigmatisation After Killings
“The murderer is gone, and now it's us who will have to live with the consequences.” That's how a Muslim shopkeeper summed up for IPS the death and legacy …
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Brooklyn Art Students Join National Surge of College Activists
(Image: Tina Scott) “I get asked a lot, 'Why are so many activists also artists?'” said Alice Zinnes, a light, color, and design professor at New York's Pratt Institute. …
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West Coast “Green” Jobs Data Shows Promise
A group of West Coast leaders has made its first attempt to quantify how many jobs have been spurred by the clean economy, a sector that includes engineers who …
JOBS Act: The Dumbest “Bipartisan” Move Since Repealing Glass-Steagall
Here we go again. Once again the ‘bipartisan’ consensus in Washington, fueled by an intoxicating brew of conventional wisdom laced with campaign cash, has repealed some of those 'cumbersome …
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US Plans No Charges Over Deadly November Strike in Pakistan
The United States military has decided that no service members will face disciplinary charges for their involvement in a NATO airstrike in November that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, an …
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23 States With “Stand Your Ground” Laws Like Florida
A makeshift memorial for Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old who was shot to death by a neighborhood watchman last month, near the gated community where Martin was killed in Sanford, …
Loan Forgiveness Good for the Economy, and Maybe Fannie and Freddie Mac Too
New analyses by mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae have added an explosive new dimension to one of the most politically charged debates about the housing crisis: Whether …
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Groups Attempt to Influence Supreme Court on Healthcare
Justice Clarence Thomas likens all the outside political pressure that the Supreme Court is facing over its review of the Obama administration's sweeping health care law to the distraction …