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Understanding the Standoff in Mali
Besides al-Qaeda and its like-minded extremists, no one has an interest in seeing one of Africau2019s largest nations becoming another Afghanistan.
Credit to Small Enterprise: The Silent Crisis
When the focus is on advanced economies, a fast-growing financial sector is actually detrimental to aggregate productivity growth.
Obama’s “Fast and Furious” Assault on Medical Marijuana
Ever since California voters approved Proposition 215, which legalized marijuana for medical use in 1996, law enforcement lobbyists had been urging the federal government to enforce prohibition and choke …
Supremacist Pleads Guilty to Sending Death Threats to Mexican-American Studies Professor in Arizona
Today was a historic date of sorts; the supremacist, Randall Leon Thompson, who threatened me pled guilty today Aug. 7, 2012, for sending threats over the telephone. He will …
Massacre of the Week
As New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said after the Aurora, Colorado massacre: u201cthis cannot continue.u201d But it is u00adand gun violence in America will no doubt go on …
Supremacist Pleads Guilty to Sending Death Threats to Mexican-American Studies Professor in Arizona
Today was a historic date of sorts; the supremacist, Randall Leon Thompson, who threatened me pled guilty today Aug. 7, 2012, for sending threats over the telephone. He will …
Massacre of the Week
As New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said after the Aurora, Colorado massacre: u201cthis cannot continue.u201d But it is u00adand gun violence in America will no doubt go on …
How Huge Food Corporations Will Make Upcoming Food Price Hikes Even Worse
The entire American food system is built on one crop — corn. And that is really bad news.
Can the Caravan of Peace End the War on Drugs?
If the caravanu2019s call to end the violence diminishes public support for the militarized approach, it could force an open dialogue about alternatives like drug legalization
The For-Profit College Racket
This is an industry that is by and large exploitative to its students and useless to the public good.