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Rabbits, Holes & Child Abduction
Throughout US history, we have wronged people, identified the problem and in time corrected it. Slavery and prison camps are joined by a modern epidemic: Wrongfully stripping children from …
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Rape Culture at the US Naval Academy
When I attended the US Naval Academy in Annapolis as an undergraduate from 2000-2004, male midshipmen used the acronym “WUBA” to refer to their female counterparts. According to historian …
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Israel in Motion
We stood in a meadow somewhere in Northern Israel, a middle-aged American man and two young women. We smiled at each other and exchanged pleasantries in Hebrew and English, …
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Conspicuous by Their Absence: What Was Missing from Obama’s National Security Address
Most conspicuous by its absence from the new Obama Doctrine was any mention of climate change. We should not be surprised by its exclusion. At the Copenhagen Climate Conference, …
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Just Begin: A Graduation Day Speech for the Post-Post-Docs of Life
Tom Engelhardt gives some inspirational advice to the remaining members of his 1966 graduating class.
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Creating a New Class of Keynesian Villain
Paul Krugman: Ken Rogoff, who recently wrote a Keynes-bashing article, must subscribe to the myth that a reasonable centrist can be won over by hippie-bashing.
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Denying a Head Start in Washington State
To get a sense of just how foolish and shortsighted the $85 billion across-the-board sequester cuts are you donu2019t have to look any further than Head Start.
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Bradley Manning Is Guilty of “Aiding the Enemy” — If the Enemy Is Democracy
As Bradley Manning was accused on aiding the enemy, Americans need to ask who the real enemy is within our military.
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The Bad, the Worse and the Horrible on Rape in the Military
The Senate committee on rape in the military ranged from bad to worse as many attempted to justify criminal sexual acts as a consequence of youth.
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The US Remains Guilty in Guatemala
Chomsky: Reagan assured America that Rios Montt was a man of great personal integrity and commitment.