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“Democracia Real Ya”: When the People in Spain Remind the Government Who They Work for
Something very interesting is happening in Spain. Last Sunday, thousands of Spanish citizens and immigrants walked the streets of all the main cities in the country, sending the clear …
Cheat Sheet on Bank Investigations and the Probes That Have Petered Out
As we and many others have noted, no top banking executives have been successfully prosecuted in connection with the financial crisis: not for making the bad loans that fed the mortgage machine, not for lying …
Private Practice and Public Laws: The Patronizing Lectures that Television Depicts and Texas Now Requires
Last Friday afternoon, I watched an episode of Private Practice that had aired the week before and was not all that surprised when one of the story lines focused on abortion. …
Defaulting on US Debt Dangerous to Even Consider, Say Experts
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. (Photo: World Economic Forum / Flickr) Washington - Congress is playing a game of “chicken” with the nation's finances, and the U.S. economy …
Inviting Chaos: The Perils of Toying With the Debt Ceiling
Crowd at New York's American Union Bank during a bank run early in the Great Depression. (Photo: Public Domain) A game of Russian roulette is being played …
Asserting War Powers, House Moves to End Afghanistan, Libya Wars
(Photo: Marines / Flickr) Voting on amendments to the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, the House of Representatives took action to hasten the end of the wars …
Peace No Longer Even Gets Lip Service
Soldiers of the US Army's Alpha Company of Third Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division prepare to fire illumination rounds during a training exercise with the …
In the Battle of the Budget, a Fog of Words
Frank Luntz at Affiliate Summit East 2010. Luntz claimed on Fox that the budget of a country of nearly 300 million people is similar to that of a working-class …
Plenty of Plenty in the New Food Plutocracy
As food prices, both in this country and abroad, continue their steady ascent, the amount we should pay for food remains a contested issue. In a February 21, 2011, …
Immigration for Third Graders
I recently came across an article that brought attention to a particularly troublesome bit of curriculum being employed by an elementary school in Duluth, Georgia. When third-grade …