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The Military as a Jobs Program: There Are More Efficient Ways to Stimulate an Economy
US soldiers from Green Platoon, 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, destroy a building used as an insurgent hideout with high explosives …
Thirty-Two Corporations Spent More on Compensation for Top Executives in 2010 Than They Paid in Income Taxes
Over the last few decades, executive pay at large corporations has skyrocketed. Today, American CEOs make 263 times the average compensation for American workers, up from the 30 to …
Attacking Libya – and the Dictionary
On a guided government tour, two boys stand in the rubble of a home that was allegedly bombed by NATO in the Arada neighborhood of Tripoli, Libya, on June …
Progressive Defense of Weiner Overlooks His Right-Wing Foreign Policy
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-New York) at a press conference in May 2011. (Photo: TalkMediaNews) A surprising number of progressives have been expressing regret at the resignation of …
Reveling in the Pain of Others: Moral Degeneracy and Violence in the “Kill Team” Photos
The “Kill Team” photos offer a glimpse into a larger set of social conditions in a winner-take-all society.
The Endgame on the Debt Ceiling
Wall Street, New York. (Photo: b00nj) As we know, President Obama and his team do not appear to be very effective negotiators when it comes to dealing …
India’s Hawks: Emulate Bin Laden Killing
Riot police take their position on the grounds of the Taj Hotel in Mumbai, India, on Friday, November 28, 2008. An article written in July 19, 2008, after the …
The $113 Billion Hole: Ten Things America Gave Up This Year to Pay for the War in Afghanistan
President Obama is expected to announcewithin a week if and how many combat troops he plans to withdraw from the war in Afghanistan. Some of those who will be …
Whatever Happened to Stability Analysis?
Milton Friedman in 1977. Friedman’s view was that the natural rate of unemployment is “the level that would be ground out by the Walrasian system of general equilibrium equations, …
Evaluating the Drug War, By the Numbers
Inmates in a mental observation unit on Rikers Island in Ocotber 2004. (Photo: Librado Romero/The New York Times) On June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon declared drug …