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Why Public Support for Free Trade Will Collapse Soon
For once, some good news: public support for free trade will almost certainly collapse over the next few years. On this issue, the public is way ahead of …
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Bury the Nuclear Renaissance Once and for All
(Image: Wiley-Blackwell) The words, “I told you so” sometimes brings guilty pleasure when uttered to your teenager or under your breath to a spouse. Uttering those words …
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The Nowhere Man
President Barack Obama records his weekly address from a UPS customer center as part of the new public-private Green Fleet Partnership, April 1, 2011. (Photo: Pete Souza / White …
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Albert Hirschman, Alan Greenspan and the Problem of Intellectual Capture
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Are American Workers Just Getting What They Deserve?
If you don’t think American workers are being inexorably scr*wed by our governing establishment’s embrace of “free” trade, stop reading right here. If you do, I have a …
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Institute of International Finance Wins Two Nobel Prizes
In a surprise announcement early this morning, the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Prize for Economics (strictly speaking: “The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory …
Republicans’ Budget Declares War on Medicare
The Republicans are poised to unveil a model budget on Tuesday that would effectively end Medicare by privatizing it, Steve Benen reports in the Washington Monthly. House Budget Committee …
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In Praise of Older, More Experienced Teachers
Back in the late 1980s, when I lived in a little town in rural Upstate New York called Spencer, I joined the local library board, eventually ending up through …
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Court Dismisses Verizon Lawsuit Against FCC; Verizon Promises to Sue Again
(Photo: gt8073a) A federal appeals court on Monday dismissed anti-net neutrality complaints by Verizon and Metro PCS against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on the grounds that …
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If You Are or Want to Be in the Middle Class
For most people the “American Dream” is to be in the middle class, or to raise yourself up to be in the middle class. And people used to expect …