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Beyond Deficit Scare-Mongering
Ellen Frank: Conservatives' real aim in their fiscal brinkmanship is to gut Social Security and Medicare.
Two Years On, Fukushima Raises Many Questions, Provides One Clear Answer
A report from a conference of nuclear scientists takes a look at what's missing from investigations into Fukushima.
Is the Supreme Court Going to Settle for “States’ Rights” on Same-Sex Marriage?
Today's version of antimiscegenation laws are those that prohibit same-sex marriage.
US-Made Tear Gas Supports State Violence in Egypt
Sarah Lazare bears witness to the use of US-made tear gas in the state repression of dissent in Cairo.
Whose Housing Recovery?
News of the housing recovery often implies that the real-estate market is becoming healthy, however investors seem to be the one benefiting from this rebound more than the average …
Barack Obama’s Economic Legacy: His Four Must-Have Items
I’ve been writing about Obama’s Legacy Tour (sorry, his second term) from time to time without focusing on the legacy itself. So this post will lay down a marker …
Back to Bracero: The Death of the Chicano Left
As immigration reform continues to sit on the back burner the question stands, where is the voice of the radical chicano left?
Republicans Come To Silicon Valley To Offer Corruption For Cash
Republicans in Silicon Valley are proposing a simple trade: money for tax breaks and cheap imported labor.
Making Disaster Pay: From the San Francisco Earthquake to Superstorm Sandy, How Capitalism Stacks the Deck on Disaster
“One man’s disaster was another’s main chance,” writes Fraser as he discusses America's sordid history with distaster capitalism.
Uncomfortable Questions in the Wake of Nuclear Accidents at Fukushima and Chernobyl
Ten questions we need to ask to make sure another nuclear meltdown like this one never happens again.