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Unemployment Extension 101: What You Need to Know
On Wednesday, after weeks of grueling legislative battle, the US Senate has approved a fourth extension of unemployment insurance benefits. It will cost about $34 billion and help 2.5 …
Robert Reich | We’re in a One-and-a-Half Dip Recession
We're not in a double-dip recession yet. We're in a one and a half dip recession. Consumer confidence is down. Retail sales are down. Home sales are down. Permits …
Evangelicals Unexpected Allies for Immigration Reform
With only a week remaining before Arizona’s contentious Senate Bill 1070 becomes law, Arizona human and immigrant rights groups have found unlikely allies among the religious community.
BP Facing Lawsuit Over Handling of Oil Spill Cleanup
A lawsuit was filed Tuesday against BP in a Louisiana state court alleging that the company's negligent actions led to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and that BP was …
Fashion Victims: The Denim Industry
About 24 kilometres from the centre of Dhaka, in the gritty industrial suburb of Savar Upazila, down a narrow path, a small sign reads ‘Latest Washing and Blasting Industries.’ …
Here and There: Six Years in the Middle East
On September 11, 2001 Megan K. Stack, the 25-year-old Houston bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, was in Paris visiting her sister. After the terrorist attacks on that …
Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III | O.K., So Tea Party Members Aren’t “Racist” – They’re Just Prejudiced and Bigoted
On Tuesday, NAACP delegates passed a resolution to condemn extremist elements within the Tea Party, calling on the party's leaders to repudiate those in their ranks who use racist …
Military Judges Defy Congressionally Ordered Access to Guantanamo Proceedings
Ever-shifting rules, minders and a cloaked public record are some of the barriers Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg said await those hoping to cover the military commissions at Guantanamo …
A Fracking War: Industry Tries – and Fails – to Debunk “Gasland” Film
The information war over the natural gas drilling practice commonly called “fracking” is heating up as filmmaker Josh Fox responds to an industry attempt to debunk his hit film …
William A. Collins | We’ve Got Empire Stress Disorder
Keep those Stars And Stripes unfurled; Wave them high and Rule the world. It's a lot of work being an empire. Expensive, but well worth it. Americans make up …