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Flat Tax for Social Security
The FICA payroll tax may be the most regressive tax in the developed world: The least a progressive administration could do would be to remove the taxable maximum.
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Poor Billionaires, Victimized by Highfalutin Ideas
Here comes another billionaire who thinks that anyone who talks about income inequality is a Nazi; this time it's Ken Langone, the co-founder of Home Depot.
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You Can’t Bounce Off the Walls If There Are No Walls: Outdoor Schools Make Kids Happier – and Smarter
Children aren't playing in the garden anymore; instead they're filling in bubbles on worksheets.
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Open Letter to Legislators From a Clinic Escort
Because of the harassment and danger patients face simply attempting to access a reproductive health care clinic, elected officials should implement buffer zones to ensure public safety.
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Noam Chomsky | The Prospects for Survival
Noam Chomsky: The US government's regular, easy acceptance of threats to survival is almost too extraordinary to capture in words.
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A Presidential Run for Bernie Sanders? Bill and Ted’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure
Attempting to build the broad-based progressive coalition we need through the electoral arena is a quixotic adventure virtually destined to fail.
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When Capitalism Fails, a Job Should Still Be a Right
Every American should have the right to a good-paying job that lets them provide for themselves and their families.
College Athletes’ Academic Cheating A Harbinger of A Failed System
Academic standards for college athletes should be raised, and sports scholarship programs should be ended.
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Social Movements Need To Be Aware of Corporate Influence and Opportunists
Activists should learn from Occupy about the dangers of being co opted.
Democratic Despair
The latest municipal elections in France have been analyzed and interpreted as a rebuff for the so-called “socialist” President Hollande.