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Paul Krugman | The Lack of Courage Among Policymakers
The nature of our current economic situation is that smart policy requires that you ignore what supposedly responsible people, who sound as if they know what they're talking about …
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Why Ordinary Citizens Have No Say
The US could be at the forefront of creating a global green economy that runs on renewable energy. Unfortunately, we can't beat our addiction to big money.
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Budgets As Moral Documents, Nuclear Weapons and the Fate of Life
Budgets are moral documents and are supposed to represent the people's priorities.
Arationalism, Negative Epistemology & Geopolitics
Musa al-Gharbi explains the (anti)philosophy in his research on the unlikely intersection of theology, cognitive science and Middle East geopolitics.
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American Democracy No Longer Works
The bottom line here is that the elites are getting what they want, while the rest of us aren't, because money has taken over our political process.
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Season of Emancipation
The exodus from Egypt may have taken 40 years, but chains of slavery are far-reaching, and the struggle for justice and liberation is long.
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A Primer on the Antiunion Campaign at Volkswagen
Given the dizzying array of antiunion forces that were involved in the campaign to undermine workers' choice to form a union at Volkswagen in Chattanooga, a who's who of …
The US and the Indonesian Right: A Look at Anti-Democratic Pro-Capitalist Crimes
Many in the international human rights community see what is happening in West Papua as a deliberate, ongoing process of genocide of West Papua's indigenous people.
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One Nation the US Actually Should Liberate
Jon Olsen's new book, Liberate Hawai'i: Renouncing and Defying the Continuing Fraudulent US Claim to the sovereignty of Hawai'i, makes a compelling case — a legal case as well …
Empire Beyond Salvation
US foreign policy is almost entirely crippled.