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Why Climate Change Will Make You Love Big Government: A Secret History of Free Enterprise and the Government That Made It Possible
Look back on 2011 and you’ll notice a destructive trail of extreme weather slashing through the year. In Texas, it was the driest year ever recorded. An epic …
President Puts American Manufacturing Front and Center in State of the Union
President Obama put American manufacturing literally at the front and center of his State of the Union speech. American manufacturing was at the front of the speech and at …
Activist Primer: The Nitty-Gritty on the Amendment Movement to Defeat Citizens United
Hundreds of protests across the country over the past weekend marked the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's controversial ruling on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The protests …
Why All the Robo-Signing? Shining a Light on the Shadow Banking System
(Image: JR / TO; Adapted: epicharmus, _rockinfree) The Wall Street Journal reported on January 19 that the Obama administration was pushing heavily to get the 50 state …
A WPA for History: Occupy the American Historical Association
[Partly in response to my calls to the American Historical Association to deal with the jobs crisis in the field, AHA President Tony Grafton organized on short notice a …
Scott Walker’s Plutonomy: An Economy for the One Percent
While volunteer after volunteer from each of Wisconsin’s 72 counties marched into the state’s election board to deposit over one million signatures for the recall of Wisconsin Governor Scott …
Hold Cheaters, Fraudsters and Exploiters Accountable to Get Our Economy Back
The spiral-to-the-bottom and inequality we are suffering is not an inevitable result of globalization, it is what happens when we don't hold cheaters and exploiters accountable and stop them. …
US/Israel: Iran NOT Building Nukes
Has Iran decided to build a nuclear bomb? That would seem to be the central question in the current bellicose debate over whether the world should simply cripple Iran’s …
Sickened and Still Waiting for Justice: 9/11 First Responders and Cold War Nuclear Weapons Workers Battle for Fair Compensation
The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act (Zadroga Act) and the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 (EEOICPA) represent two federal reparatory and remedial compensation …
Breast Cancer Behind Bars: How a Prison Sentence Can Become a Death Sentence
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Imagine finding a lump in your breast. Imagine that your efforts to schedule a medical check-up are stymied and you have to …