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Op-Ed
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What We Need Now: A National Economic Strategy for Better Jobs
Jobs are returning with depressing slowness, and most of the new jobs pay less than the jobs that were lost in the Great Recession.
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A Big, Unexplored Idea in School Reform
Evidence of the traditional general education curriculum's inadequacy is overwhelming.
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Secrecy’s Tangled Web of Deceit
US government officials insist that their secret surveillance techniques are so valuable in fighting “terrorism” that they must be kept completely in the dark - along with the American …
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Who Will Watch the Watchers?
Congress should, today, take our national security apparatus out of the hands of unaccountable shadowy corporations and put it back in the hands of publicly-accountable institutions.
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Accountability for Transnational Corporations Must Be an Active US Goal in the Wake of the Kiobel Decision
The Supreme Court's decision in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum makes it more difficult to bring suit in US federal courts for violations of the law of nations that …
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How Not to Wage War
The recent NSA revelations of widespread surveillance on American citizens should be cause for intense protest. Surely it will be, as a day of nationwide mass action to restore …
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The Case for No GMO Patents
The June 13, 2013, Supreme Court decision that human genes are not patentable should logically be the first step in reversing three decades of decisions that flouted the previously …
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Edward Snowden: Profile in Courage
Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who exposed the NSA's domestic surveillance plot, might become one of the most important people is US history.
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Rios Montt and Arpaio: Where Impunity Reigns
What themes tie together the stories of Guatemala's former dictator Rios Montt and of Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County in Arizona?
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Tyranny Is Bipartisan
First they came for the whistleblowers, but I was not a whistleblower, so I did not speak up...