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Why GOP Wants to Tax Students and Not Polluters
Robert Reich: Why would government incentivize carbon emissions and discourage higher ed? Ask Republicans.
Think Your Money Is Safe in an Insured Bank Account? Think Again
Ellen Brown: The ‘bail in’ of depositor funds is now being made official European Union policy.
The 1% Want Your Kidney: Tales of Redistribution
A Bush-era economist recently likened progressive taxation to forceful kidney removal. Dean Baker puts his claim in context.
Cut Off US Aid to Egypt? It’s Not Just a Good Idea, It’s the Law
If we cannot cut off aid to Egypt when an aid cutoff is mandated by US law, under what circumstances could we do it?
Rethinking Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson is admired for his elegant prose in the Declaration of Independence, but he was a world-class hypocrite.
Risky Business of Morsi’s Ouster
Egypt's coup could further radicalize the region's Islamists with dangerous implications for the US and the world, says ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar.
What We Can Learn From America’s First Tea Party About Countering Corporate Power
Before there was Citizens United, a modern Tea Party movement, or national momentum to ban corporate personhood, Thom Hartmann shows that resistance to corporate power is just as patriotic …
This Is What Border Enforcement Actually Looks Like
Conservative media figures have used border security as a sticking point against which to derail reform, but here are the facts on border enforcement.
The Brief Wondrous Life (and Long Dangerous Half-Life) of Strontium-90
Strontium-90 - and other nuclear byproducts linked to significant suffering, disease and death - will linger in our soil and water, our tissue and bone, for generations. Recent leaks …
Independence From Terror
“Do you have any idea how we can find independence from the corporate–state terror?” asks activist Subhankar Banerjee.