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Aaron Swartz, Financial Fraud, and the Justice Department
The Justice Department apparently wanted to send a message with its decision to prosecute Swartz while ignoring the financial fraud that fueled the housing bubble. It certainly did.
Waking Up in Tehran
If we cannot learn from our own history or this kind of common sense, let us learn from Mossadegh. War is not a solution.
A Response to Time Magazine: Young People are Not Fragmenting the Pro-Choice Movement
If anything is strengthening the pro-choice and reproductive justice movements, it's the people, regardless of age, who are working outside the traditional power structures.
What’s Worth Learning: How Outdated Curricula are Failing America’s Students
(Image: Students in class via Shutterstock)It goes without saying that solving a problem begins with a correct diagnosis of its cause. When Michael Gerson, President George W. Bush’s chief …
The Iraq War “Surge” Myth Returns
What was ultimately left behind was not only a devastated Iraqi population but an authoritarian Shiite government.
Nixon Went to China, Who Will Go to Iran?
Somehow it is good and proper for us to be killing Iranian children — although perhaps not to be talking about it.
Let’s Nationalize the Federal Reserve
Our neighborhood friendly central bank, the Federal Reserve, has been doing its job lately, but something still seems wrong with it.
Post Iraq War US Intel Chief Praised
Thomas Fingar, former Director of the National Intelligence Council, will receive and award for Integrity in Intelligence, for his work to push us closer to a war with Iran.
Eight Things I Miss About the Cold War
“Fifty years ago, college was cheap, unions were strong, and there was no terrorism-industrial complex,” writes Jon Wiener in this nostalgic piece on the Cold War era.
The American Role-of-Government Debate and the Trashing of “Europe“
It seems political analysts warnings against the US taking the same Europe might simply be a justification for conservative right wing economic policies.