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IMF’s Involvement Fuels Sudan’s Continued Unrest
IMF austerity policies, as well as policies that have supported foreign acquisition of Sudanese agricultural land, have increased poverty and civil unrest in Sudan.
What Media Should Know About Hobby Lobby and the Fight for Contraceptive Access
Hobby Lobby, a secular, for-profit corporation, plans to wrongly argue before the Supreme Court today that emergency contraception, a form of preventive service like birth control that all health …
Bells Toll in Temple Town as India Braces for 2014 Elections
The world's most populous democracy will go to the polls from April 7 to May 12 to elect the lower House of parliament and ultimately determine the - at …
In Health Care Suit Against Catholic Bishops, the Specter of an Early Defeat
The ACLU's case against the US Bishops Conference u2013 heralded by some as a bold legal stroke u2013 could be thwarted on procedural grounds.
Dean Baker | The Texas-California Job Growth Derby
In recent months conservatives have been boasting about the strong job growth of red state Texas compared to the much weaker job growth of blue state California. It's worth …
New Lawsuit Alleges That Wells Fargo Has a Manual for Mass Fabrication of Foreclosure Documents
A Federal lawsuit looks to have unearthed a smoking gun about systematic document fabrication at Wells Fargo.
Why ExxonMobil’s Partnerships With Russia’s Rosneft Challenge the Narrative of US Exports as Energy Weapon
The situation in Ukraine is a simple one at face value, at least from an energy perspective.
Robert Strauss’s Watergate Secret
An enduring Watergate mystery is whether Democratic powerbroker Robert Strauss earned his GOP spurs by secretly helping the Republicans in the spy scandal.
The Myth of Maximizing Shareholder Value
So many of the assertions made about “maximizing shareholder value” are false that they should be assumed to be a lie until proven otherwise.
Crimea and Punishment
US politicians and pundits want the American people to get so upset about Crimea's decision to split with Ukraine and rejoin Russia that they will support more US military …