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How the Wisconsin Uprising Got Hijacked
Most of the conclusions of the last few days, left and right, are likely wrong.
Dear Bank of America, We’re Not Leaving Our Homes
foreclosure, bailout, Occupy, evictions, eviction resistance, veterans, community organizing, underwater mortgages
Daniel Berrigan, America’s Street Priest, Stands With Occupy
He is asking Trinity Church to drop charges against activists for attempting to occupy its empty lot last year.
Election Countdown 2012: Florida Voters File Lawsuit to Stop New Attempt to Purge Voter Rolls, and more
Today's election countdown news comes from Florida and Iowa.
Why the Public’s Growing Disdain for the Supreme Court May Help Obamacare
Fully three-quarters say justices' decisions are sometimes influenced by their personal political views.
This Next Generation Will Be Left Behind in the Land of No Opportunity
Over the past forty years the American worker has gone from riches to rags, not the other way around.
The Almost Scoop on Nixon’s “Treason“
In late October 1968, Beverly Deepe, a 33-year-old Saigon correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, came upon a story that could have changed history. A six-year veteran covering the …
In Illinois, There Is No Budget Crisis: There Is a Regressive Taxation Crisis
Sad to say, nothing they're doing or talking about in the General Assembly will have a significant impact on the state's chronic budget crisis. Not draconian Medicaid cuts, not …
Greening the Knowledge Economy: A Critique of Neoliberalism
The postmodern critique of neoliberalism is not merely a negative account of neoclassical assumptions or simply an updating of economics according to the debates of the 1980s and after. …
Four Decades Ago, a Senator Warned About the Revolving Door of the Military-Industrial Complex
There are scores of former government officials working in the nuclear weapons lobby, providing it with special access to the government that it otherwise would not have.