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Rip-Off: High Out-of-Pocket Social Costs are a Stealth Tax on the Middle Class and the Poor
The most pernicious myth in American politics holds that only around half the population pays taxes.
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How Can the States Provide Fourth Amendment Protection Against the NSA?
States have the authority to defy federal NSA surveillance policy, based on anticommandeering doctrine, and are being urged to do so by the civil liberties community.
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What Do We Treasure? A World Free of Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation President David Krieger spoke at the opening of the exhibition
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The Confidence Fairy and Gnome, Debunked
Paul Krugman: Count me in as someone who believes that macroeconomics - at least of the Keynesian variety - has actually worked pretty well these past five years.
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India’s GOP Voiceless in the 2014 Elections
India's Grand Old Party is not naming its prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 elections, nor touting its very real accomplishments while in power. Why?
School ™: Resist the Feed, Feed the Resistance
While many have commented on how accurate the 11-year old Feed is in its predictions of social networking and mobile technology, its dire predictions on the corporatization of education …
Now That Parades Have Ended
This is the reality of war, a reality that we know and those who make war try to hide; memories and knowledge that we have tried to forget, or …
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Reflections on the Detroit Mayoral Elections
For political animals like us in Detroit, it is important to reflect before heading back into battle, or worse, retreating
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Lean In or Stand Up?
Things worked out great for Sandbergu2019s friendu2014she took the job and her husband learned to buy groceries. Things didnu2019t work out so well for the Newark schools.
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The Oliver Stone Interview, Part II: JFK
When I chatted with Stone about it recently, he betrayed no false modesty on the subject. u201cJFK was staggeringly complex and beautiful.