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The Public Option in Banking: Another Look at the German Model
Norddeutsche Landesbank, a public corporation by the federal states of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. (Photo: dierk schaefer) Publicly owned banks were instrumental in funding Germany's “economic miracle” …

The Death Penalty – Again
Princeton – Three significant events relating to the death penalty occurred in the United States during September. The one that gained the most publicity was the execution in Georgia …

News to Media: Republicans Have Not Answered Obama’s Call for an Actual Jobs Plan
One week after the President admonished Republicans for lacking a serious alternative to his American Jobs Act, Senate Republicans introduced what they call a “jobs” bill yesterday. ABC News, …

Top Ten Giveaways to Big Oil in Rick Perry’s “Jobs” Plans
Rick Perry. (Photo: Gage Skidmore / Flickr) Today, Rick Perry finally unveiled his much-anticipated “jobs” plan. The 41-page document, however, is less focused on creating jobs than …

Occupy Wall Street: People Power vs. the Police State
"The more, the merrier,” was how the white-shirted police inspector put it as he stood on the periphery of Liberty Plaza while activist and Rage Against the Machine guitarist …

As the Earth Turns: Going Global With Perennial Polyculture Agriculture
Wes Jackson spent the weekend at The Land Institute's annual Prairie Festival talking up - with his usual precision and passion - the science and strategy behind plans to …

Petraeus’s CIA Fuels Iran Murder Plot
Former Gen. Petraeus has long been eager to please the neoconservatives in Washington and their friends in Israel by creating “intelligence” to portray Iran and other target countries in …

Professor Randall Kennedy and the Dangerous Politics of Sentiment
Harvard Law School Professor Randall Kennedy recently penned an op-ed entitled “Why Obama's Black Critics are Wrong.” He contends that President Obama's African-American critics have focused on his "racial …

FBI Account of “Terror Plot” Suggests Sting Operation
While the administration of Barack Obama vows to hold the Iranian government “accountable” for the alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington, the legal document describing evidence …

For Bachmann’s Law School, God and Justice Were Intertwined
Tulsa, Oklahoma - Michele Bachmann was 22 and newly married when, in the fall of 1979, she and 53 other aspiring lawyers arrived on the manicured campus of Oral …