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Does President Obama Want to Cut Social Security by 3 Percent?
If the backdrop to this question is not immediately clear, then you should be very angry at the reporters who cover the campaign.
Why Your Health Is Bigger Than Your Body
New findings explain how politics, economics, and ecology can help or hurt our bodies.
On Haiti, Jared Diamond Hasn’t Done His Homework
Whereas Diamond simply disregards Israelu2019s economic strangulation of Palestine, in the case of Haiti, Diamond adds a gratuitous dose of blame, suggesting that Haitiu2019s centuries of misery are due …
Michael Winship | Can Congress Come Out and Play?
Members hustled back to the capital all right, not to get much accomplished for the good of the nation but to party down at events designed to scrape every …
“Targeting” the Poor in Thailand
u2018Inflation targetingu2019 has become the cause for much controversy in Thailand. The issue in question is clear. When a countryu2019s central bank functions with the belief that it can …
Are There Borders for the 99%?
The power of the caravan rests on a different framework, one that challenges our understanding of international borders in an era when transnational corporations are increasingly overshadowing the primacy …
Obama Says One Thing in Spotlight, Another Behind Closed Doors
The president does not want the public to know that what he is saying in the spotlight of the campaign trail is the opposite of what he is negotiating …
Carbon Trading Scheme Close to Collapse
By 2020, countries that are signatory to the Kyoto protocol will have accumulated more than 17 billion tonnes of surplus emission reduction permits, a new study shows. This enormous …
Dirty Money: Cities and States Addicted to Soliciting for Corporate Favors
Airbus wasnu2019t coming to Alabama for free: state and local officials had offered the company an incentive package worth more than $158 million for the plant.
How to End Hard Times? Reduce Inequality
A new report from a United Nations group details how low inequality promotes economic growth u2014 and blasts away at a status quo where the most profitable firms end …