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Connecting the Dots of the GOP Assault on Women
At a time when women in other countries like those in newly liberated Egypt, for example, are rising up to demand their rights, we women here in the United …
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My Medicare Deficit Solution
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) David Brooks, perhaps realizing that it was a bad idea to swallow a politician’s PR bullet points whole, is now backpedaling. The …
Did Sarkozy Set Up Obama’s Benghazi Nightmare?
Even as Barack Obama struggles to reduce America's public role in the Libyan conflict, he and his supporters continue to defend the UN military intervention as necessary to stop …
Radioactive Human Embryos: Our Nuclear Legacy?
(Photo: Kingray) We're now entering a more disturbing chapter of the nuclear disaster in Japan. Radiation is being detected in the atmosphere, rain water and food chain …
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For Alan Greenspan, Redemption, and Wisdom, Remain Elusive
Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve. (Credit: Stephen Crowley/The New York Times) Some people have asked me for reactions to a piece by Alan Greenspan …
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US Nuclear Regulator Lets Industry Help With the Fine Print
In the fall of 2001, inspectors with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission were so concerned about possible corrosion at Ohio's Davis Besse Nuclear Power Station that they prepared an emergency …
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The President Misses an Opportunity to Get the Country on the Right Course
President Obama announced the outlines of his deficit plan, leaving a lot up for negotiation. He planted his poll at the center right and where he ends up, with …
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Twelve Tax-Dodging Corporations Spent $1 Billion to Influence Washington Over the Last Decade
As ThinkProgress has been reporting, while Main Street Americans are having their services gutted and public investment is being slashed, some of the country's most profitable corporations are getting …
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The Time Is Right to End “Zero Tolerance” in Schools
It is too early to know whether the current wave of school reforms will lead to lasting improvements in student achievement. But it is not too early to note …
All Wisconsin Votes Unverified
Protesters in Madison, Wisconsin, March 5, 2011. (Photo: ra_hurd) Whether they're accurate is another question entirely ... The sturm and drang over those votes - …