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Welcome to the One Percent Recovery
There was a brief debate focused on the following question: would the gains of the economy continue to accrue to the top 1% once the recovery started, or would …
Women’s Rights Are Human Rights
On March 8, 1997, workers at the University of Vermont were at the beginning of a struggle to unionize. The units of the workforce that were prime for unionization …
Was Sarah Palin’s Image Hurt by Tina Fey? You Betcha!
The new HBO movie Game Change, which revisits the 2008 presidential campaign, includes a scene in which Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin watches Tina Fey impersonate her on …
Conyers Urges Obama to Nominate Jeff Sachs to Lead the World Bank
President Obama has a historic opportunity to help reform the World Bank, by nominating development expert Jeffrey Sachs to be the World Bank's next president. Sachs has said that …
How the Right’s Smear Machine Started
Americans sometimes wonder how the nation’s political process got so unspeakably nasty with vitriol pouring forth especially from right-wing voices like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Michael Savage, to …
University of Arizona Must Live Up to Its Past Actions Against Discrimination
The University of Arizona Campus in Tucson. (Photo: JR P / Flickr) Arizona's premiere research institution in Tucson, the University of Arizona, today finds itself in an …
Physicians in Congress Committing Malpractice on Millions
The sun setting behind a thick layer of air polution. (Photo: D'Arcy Norman / Flickr) What would you think if your physician told you, "Keep smoking because …
“Public Media” Joins “Gang Greens” in Colluding With Frackers
NPR's serenades to the "natural"(1) gas industry are getting more and more blatant. Let's pick apart some of these egregious transgressions from journalistic integrity. National Petroleum, er, National Public …
Playing the Game in Afghanistan: Dead Americans, Dead Goats, and Half a Million Gunmen on the Loose
Recent weeks have brought yet another sad chance to watch badly laid plans in Afghanistan go haywire. In three separate incidents, allies, most from the Afghan National Army …
Raising Revenue From High-Income Households: Should States Continue to Place the Lowest Tax Rates on Those With the Highest Incomes?
State and local tax systems are regressive: they tax low-income households at higher rates than high-income households. This issue has come to light as some states, looking for ways …