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The Butterfly and the Boiling Point
Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring.
Contractors Watching Contractors? Where Is the True Oversight? (Part I)
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“The Pentagon Labyrinth”: A New Guide to Reform the Pentagon Even if You Feel Overwhelmed by the Mess (2)
(Image: Lance Page / Truthout) For this week's Solutions column, I am looking at a new handbook, "The Pentagon Labyrinth," edited by Winslow Wheeler. This handbook is …
State Health Law Waivers: Where Will They Take Us?
The president supports state innovation in health care, but vigilance is required to ensure state reforms improve health as we continue to call for national reform. President …
Peter King: Reactionary, Rash and Wrong
Rep. Peter T. King (R-New York), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, November 29, 2010. (Photo: Drew Angerer / …
How Wisconsin Could Turn Austerity Into Prosperity: Own a Bank
Protesters dance and celebrate being allowed to stay another night in the rotunda at the State Capitol building, in Madison, Wisconsin, on February 27, 2011. (Photo: Nicole Bengiveno / …
Public Pensions 101 (2)
With the recent spate of attacks on climate science and evolution, it should not be a surprise that traditional defined-benefit pensions in the public sector are now also under …
Madison a Foretaste of Things to Come: the Next Big Occupation Could be Boomers Taking Over the Capitol Building
Union supporters demonstrate outside the State Capitol as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker prepares to speak about the state budget at a joint session of the Legislature in Madison, Wis.(Photo: …
Meet the New Start, Same as the Old Finish (2)
Last May, the Obama administration promised $80 billion to the nuclear weapons establishment for "modernizing" the arsenal. Three large H-bomb laboratories will share about $10 billion annually to "upgrade" …
Public Teachers: America’s New “Welfare Queens” (2)
Protesters in Tallahassee, Florida on February 26, 2011. (Photo: A Florida Studio) In 1976, on a failed campaign to the White House, Ronald Reagan coined one of …