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Philadelphia Freedom: Birthplace of the Constitution Takes Center Stage
‘Cause I live and breathe this Philadelphia freedomFrom the day that I was born I’ve waved the flagPhiladelphia freedom took me knee-high to a manYeah, gave me peace of …
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When Liberals Stop Being Wimps
Elon, NC - Conservatives are not accustomed to being on the defensive. They have long experience with attacking the evils of the left and the abuses of activist judges. …
Left Behind: What We Lost in Iraq and Washington, 2009-2012
People ask the question in various ways, sometimes hesitantly, often via a long digression, but my answer is always the same: no regrets. In some 24 years of government …
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Why the Kochs Matter
Charles and David Koch became national news about two years ago when a Jane Mayer exposé in the New Yorker revealed the billionaire brothers were funding "stealth attacks on …
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Remembering Mike Wallace
Mike Wallace at his office in New York, Feb. 14, 2002. Wallace, the CBS reporter who became one of the nation's best-known broadcast journalists as an interrogator of the …
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JOBS Act: Something for Nothing?
President Barack Obama arrives to sign the JOBS Act in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, April 5, 2012. (Photo: Stephen Crowley / The New York …
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Poetry, Plasticity, Philosophical Activism
The formula, "99 percent," seems at once incredibly rhetorical and real. We are used to hyperbole; we are less used to an absurdly lop-sided figure that is actually matched …
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Protecting Psychologists Who Harm: The APA’s Latest Wrong Turn
Camp Delta, where detainees on the war on terrorism are kept, at the U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo, October 9, 2003. (Photo: Angel Franco / The New York Times) …
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Gloria Steinem: “Valuing Women’s Work“
The truth was (and still is) that in the United States, as in almost every country, categories of work are less likely to be paid by the expertise they …
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Time to Occupy the IRS?
Every year I trek down to a nondescript office building near Wall Street with a bag full of receipts and a belly full of anxiety. When it’s tax time, …