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Elect the Dream: Strategy for Progressive Political Power
One way to do it is to have more progressive people actually running for state and local offices.
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Spotlight G-20: Mexico’s Surreal Leadership on Food Security
Whatu2019s surreal is listening to Mexicou2019s Agriculture Minister, Francisco Mayorga, speaking last Wednesday to an international conference on u201cNew Paradigms for Agriculture,u201d describe without a hint of irony or …
The Bishops’ Politics: Why Are Women’s Health and Lives Subject to the Catholic Lobby?
The Catholic Church as represented by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops directly influences American politics.
Beyond the Politics of the Big Lie: Education Deficit and New Authoritarianism
The American public is suffering from an education deficit and growing inability to think critically.
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Wisconsin’s Alien Seed: There Can Be No Joy in the Fact That Money Rules
Walker will get to stay in office for the rest of his term, but he didn't win the election u2014 money did.
Chicago Workers’ Economic Plan: Go Co-Operative!
Laura Flanders: A group of the workers who occupied the Republic Windows and Doors factory in 2008 have founded a worker-run cooperative.
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Ponderings on the New Politics of Extremism
Back from several days in Washington. The city still has all the disadvantages of being a one-industry town, with almost everyone working for the government or lobbying the government …
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Obama vs. Romney: The Framing Matchup, Round One
As of their kickoff speeches in Ohio, Romney and Obama have both chosen economics as their major campaign theme.
It Couldn’t Happen Here, It Does Happen There
After more than a decade of our most recent Afghan War, the Obama administration and the US military are clearly willing to hang out a temporary sign saying: 'Washington …
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Occupy Will Return
The television pundits and talking heads, the columnists and academics who declare the movement dead are as out of touch with reality now as they were on Sept. 17 …