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Requiem for the American Century – Turning 70, Paragraph by Paragraph
Here's a question that, in a globally warming world, comes to mind: Are we a failed experiment?
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Dean Baker | Cheap Talk at the Fed
By calling attention to the over-valuation of social media and biotech companies, and junk bonds, Fed Chair Janet Yellen is putting the financial professionals on notice.
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What Corporate Media and Corporate Latino Politicians Won’t Tell You About Central American Child Refugees
Why can't Latino politicians and corporate media call the current wave of Central American children refugees, when that's what they plainly are?
Israel’s Groundhog Day: Reverse Snowballs and the Horror of Lawn-Mowing
Ironically, the very mechanisms of economic sanction engineered by Israeli and pro-Israel lobbies against Iran and Syria are likely increasingly to be applied to Israel itself.
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Child Migrants Are Refugees the US Helped Create
Central American children fleeing poverty and gang violence are refugees - often from situations US policies have helped to create - and they should be treated as such.
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The End of Pot Prohibition as We Know It
Without federal leadership, you can count on marijuana legalization to keep spreading one state at a time.
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TBTF Strike Back! SEC Commissioner Calls FSOC “Vast Left Wing Conspiracy“
One of the favored practices of the banking industry in recent years has been to engage in not merely shameless, but truly deranged hyperbole when anyone dares voice so …
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All of Us Are Connected – None of These Words Are Mine Alone
The act of writing can be just as excruciating as it can be exhilarating in this case as part of a process to explore interconnectedness and reclaimed histories as …
What If You Could Only Get an Abortion If Two Doctors Approved It?
A restriction was placed on abortions in New Brunswick that bans Canadian health insurance from paying for it unless it is done in a hospital, and with the approval …
William Rivers Pitt | Hope in the Village
Glowing like a coal in the night, a bunch of kids were immersed in the practice of community and good government.