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Op-Ed
Posturing from Weakness
President Obama's 2015 budget proposes a number of tax increases that will mainly affect the rich.
Mr. and Mrs. Labor-Management: Struggling to Make Their Marriage Work
My name is Labor and I married Mr. Management in the second half of the nineteenth century.
The Fallacy of Financial Education
Dave Ramsey is a huge success because he is peddling one of the huge but popular illusions of American culture: that people can become rich by making better financial …
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Deadly Fukushima Crisis Further Corrodes Viability of Nuclear Energy
Switching from nuclear power to renewable energy should be one of the consequences of the three-year-old Fukushima reactor meltdown.
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A Rededication to Public Education
We need to put the public back in public education and be clear about our goals and the best way to achieve them.
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William Rivers Pitt | In Memory of Bartcop: Seedcorn, Pioneer, Patriot
Coppage was, in his way, the Charlie Parker of liberal bloggers. Every saxophone player who followed Parker was blowing notes Bird had already blown better.
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Conservatives Offer Americans Empty Stomachs and Empty Rhetoric
Paul Ryan says that “the left” is offering Americans “a full stomach and an empty soul.” The truth is that conservatives like Paul Ryan are offering Americans empty stomachs …
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By the Way, Your Home Is on Fire: The Climate of Change and the Dangers of Stasis
Right now, you can think of the way we're living as an office tower and the fossil fuel economy as a plane crashing into it in very, very, very …
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The Failed Libertarian Experiment in Chile
Chileans have, to put it in terms Americans understand, rejected Reaganomics. And it's time for us here in the US to do the same.
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Learn From the Teachers: Chicago Strike Showed What a Union Is For
The sight of tens of thousands of striking teachers marching through the streets of Chicago in September 2012 was a much-needed shot in the arm for a sagging labor …