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An Informed and Educated Electorate
Before the Reagan presidency, it was possible for any American student with academic competence to attend college and graduate without debt.
Stop Them From Eating My Town
We must break up the modern-day monopolists and return opportunity and wealth to local communities and small businesses.
Roll Back the Reagan Tax Cuts
Why is it that Americans have come to believe that tax cuts are good for everyone?
Bring My Job Home!
“Free trade” is a guaranteed ticket to the poorhouse for any nation, and the evidence is overwhelming.
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“Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future“
(Image: Knopf) "Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future" is the Truthout Progressive Pick of the Week. The Federal Reserve Board, arguably the most …
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Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future – Eccles’ Insight
"Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future - Eccles’s Insight" is the Truthout Progressive Pick of the Week. The Federal Reserve Board, arguably the most powerful group …
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“Lockdown High”: The War on Drugs Goes to School
(Image: Verso Books) Chris Steffner strode to the front of the packed audience, shunning the podium to deliver her sermon Oprah-style with a wireless mic transmitting the …
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“Merchants of Doubt”: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues From Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
(Image: Bloomsbury Press) Ben Santer is the kind of guy you could never imagine anyone attacking. He’s thoroughly moderate—of moderate height and build, of moderate temperament, of …
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There Is No Such Thing as a Free Market
(Image: Bloomsbury Publishers) Thing 1: There is No Such Thing as a Free Market What They Tell You Markets need to be free. …
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Bill Moyers Interviews Andrew Bacevich
Andrew Bacevich on Bill Moyers Journal. (Photo: Bill Moyers Journal) Our finest warriors are often our most reluctant warmongers. They have seen firsthand the toll war …