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The Upcoming Nuclear Peril: Worse Than the BP Oil Disaster
How many crises will it take? The recent destruction wrought by Big Finance and Big Oil will pale in comparison to the destruction wrought by Big Nuclear if we …
House Passes Financial Reform, but a Senate Hurdle Awaits
President Obama got one step closer to signing a major financial reform bill, as the House of Representatives voted Wednesday in favor of a House-Senate compromise on the measure. …
The Politics of Death: Throwing Mumia Abu-Jamal Under the Bus
“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.” -Frederick Douglass
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and the Liberal Militarist Diversion
On May 27, the House of Representatives approved an amendment to the latest defense spending bill that would lift the ban on gays in the US military and …
Froma Harrop | Lafayette, We Are Embarrassed
Thirty-six American cities and towns are named after the Marquis de Lafayette — the best-known being Fayetteville, N.C., and Lafayette, La. Countless streets, parks and counties also honor the …
Letter From Arizona: Immigrant Rights Youth Organizer Leilani Clark Speaks
For Tucson native and immigrant rights activist Leilani Clark, there are two Tucsons. The one in her head - a desert oasis where, just a short ten-minute drive from …
Joe Conason | Searching for Solutions to Global Warming in Africa (2)
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - What would the wealthy nations of the West (and their rising rivals in the East) do if they actually wanted to prevent catastrophic warming? …
The Real Deficit Is Jobs!
The real deficit is jobs. That is one more of those things that everyone can see in front of their faces, but we're told it isn't what it is. …
E.J. Dionne Jr. | The Passionless Party
Washington - One of the strangest lead sentences I have ever encountered appeared in Politico last week. It read: "John Kerry has been the most aggressive advocate of climate …
And It’s One, Two, Three, What Are We Fighting For?
It was 1967, and the world was on fire. War at home and abroad demonstrably began to rear its head, and long-held American values of moral exceptionalism and widespread …