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Op-Ed
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We Don’t Want You to Swim in the River
The last time North Korea got frisky, the Navy showed off an anti-missile laser. Now, with the crisis continuing in Ukraine, the Navy is showing off something even scarier.
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The Code of Crisis and Disaster
To respond to a week of triple catastrophe - a UN climate change report, the Ryan budget, the McCutcheon decision - it is crucial to confront and decode our …
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On Climate, Business as Usual
Despite mounting evidence that global warming is an urgent crisis, emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases grew faster between 2000 and 2010 than over the previous three decades.
“There’s a Muslim in America Named Muhammad Ali”
Documentary film forces viewers to cope with a black man who floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee in a white world.
Many Faces of War
Iraq has been occupied for over 11 years now. Over two million troops have flown in and out of theater, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and …
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Each One of Us Is a Toxic Superfund Site
We are all lab rats in one giant, toxic and deadly experiment.
US Anti-Tank Rockets in Syria: Did Congress Approve?
Tell Congress not to be a ‘potted plant’ and weigh in on the US sending dangerous antitank weapons to Syrian rebels that could easily fall into the hands of …
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Piketty in Washington: How to Reverse the Increasing Concentration of Wealth
French Economist Thomas Piketty's book, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” could very well become one of the most influential books on economics in decades.
Pay Your Taxes, Go to Gitmo?
Does paying taxes violate the law against providing aid and support to a terrorist organization?
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America’s Thin-Skinned Billionaires
Paul Krugman: When people with fragile egos have great power, seriously bad things can happen.