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Op-Ed
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Crazy Like Foxes
One of the major misunderstandings of this budget mess is that it's about Republicans just running around willy-nilly screaming “nonononono” like toddlers having a temper tantrum. I know it …
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Conservatives Celebrate Shutdown of Government They Hate
Republicans are exercising the one power that the American People have not yet been able to take away from them: the power to destroy.
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Government Shutdown … Brought to You by Citizens United
Republicans, instead of working with Democrats to find a bipartisan middle road for the country, as they have traditionally done, have to compromise with and do the bidding of …
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No Triumph for Austerity
Paul Krugman: “It was, I suppose, predictable that Europe's austerians would claim vindication at the first hint of an economic upturn.”
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Who Are You … My Enemy?
The Enemy Project is a portable art instillation with the intention to bridge the gap between ‘friend and foe,’
The Forgotten War: 12 Years in Afghanistan Down the Memory Hole
Will the US still be meddling in Afghanistan 30 years from now? If history is any guide, the answer is yes.
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Republicans Win Standoff, Shoot Hostages Anyway
In the end, the Republicans won. A majority in Congress, made up of Republicans who understood they'd won and Democrats who feared a government shutdown, would have voted for …
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A Message to All
The other side needs to start seeing the type of society we live in.
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William Rivers Pitt | The Fundraising Message That Ate America
We are smack dab in the middle of the most irrational, damaging, stupid, reckless, feckless fundraising drive in the history of currency.
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This Week, Let’s Help Burlington Kill the $1.5 Trillion F-35 Taxpayer Ripoff
We have just a week left to help Burlington, Vermont, kill the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the biggest taxpayer ripoff in human history.