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Grover Norquist’s Real Game: Shifting Power and Wealth to the One Percent
Grover Norquist is fast becoming the man everyone loves to hate – except those who fear him. Norquist, the leader of Americans for Tax Reform, …
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Europe’s Austerity Measures May Guarantee Recession
(Image: CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate) European leaders earlier this month announced a plan that, on the face of it, was pure nonsense. …
Would You Blow the Whistle? Many Say Yes, but Perils Abound (2)
(Image: JR / Truthout) Would you do it? If you knew your employer was defrauding the public or the government, would you go outside the company to …
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EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want (2)
White pine trees along a trail at the Adirondack Park Visitor Interpretive Center. (Photo: Ruth Fremson / The New York Times) Seeing this bumper sticker on my …
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Occupy the Corporation (2)
An Occupy Los Angeles protester at the camp outside City Hall in Los Angeles, November 30, 2011. (Photo: Ted Soqui /- The New York Times) Imagine a …
Would You Blow the Whistle? Many Say Yes, but Perils Abound
(Image: JR / Truthout) Would you do it? If you knew your employer was defrauding the public or the government, would you go outside the company to stop …
Why “Evidence-Based” Education Fails
How did the largest and most aggressive federal education initiative, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), garner bipartisan support under George W. Bush, and how have the central tenets of …
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Three Million Could Lose Jobless Pay in Impasse
Washington - More than three million people stand to lose unemployment insurance benefits in the near future because of an impasse in Congress over how to extend the aid …
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House GOP Rejects Tax-Cut Plan, Making Hike More Likely Jan. 1
Washington - The bitter showdown of Republicans versus the White House and congressional Democrats over a Social Security tax break grew uglier and more tense Tuesday, and the result …
“The Protester” Becomes Time’s Person of the Year, Wants More
Some organizers of the protests of Tahrir Square, Egypt, visiting Occupy Wall Street on October 25, 2011. (Photo: NLNY) Time Magazine Wednesday announced that its 2011 Person …