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Serfing USA: Corporate America Is Robbing American Workers
Along with the staggering theft in broad daylight of Americans’ assets that has occurred in the course of the ongoing financial crisis, as taxpayers funded multi-trillion bank bailouts and …
School Bans Facebook for a Week: Five Lessons Students Learned
Considering a New Year’s Resolution to cut back on Facebook time in favor of real face time with friends and family? A one-week blackout of Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, …
For Ireland, a Question of Scale
Many readers have asked how I reconcile my disdain for Ireland’s bank bailout in 2008 (and praise for Iceland’s refusal to put taxpayers on the hook) with my support …
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E.J. Dionne, Jr. | Will Liberals Learn From Adversity?
Washington - Was 2010 American liberalism's Waterloo? How are we to square the achievement of so many goals that have long been on progressive wish lists with the resounding …
Solution: End the Insurance Gap for People With Preexisting Conditions
In this Solution, Dina Rasor takes on a little-understood but truly draconian provision in the massive health care reform bill. The provision, requiring the most sick and most vulnerable …
US to Vatican: Genetically Modified Food Is a “Moral Imperative“
Secret United States diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks detail efforts to promote genetically modified (GM) crops and biotechnology across the globe, including the Vatican, where US diplomats pushed the …
Behind the Cholera Epidemic
This is an emergency. Cholera is killing at least one person every 30 minutes in Haiti. Over 2,000 people, and probably many more, succumbed to cholera during the first …
End-of-Life Counseling Returns As Does “Death Panels” Nonsense
A proposed program to cover counseling sessions for seniors on end-of-life care has risen from the ashes of health care reform and found a new life in Medicare regulations, …
In Money-Changers We Trust
Two years into the Obama presidency, and the economic data is still looking grim. Don't be fooled by the gyrations of the stock market, where optimism is mostly a …