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Op-Ed
Recognizing the “Unpeople”
Kidnapping civilians is plainly a serious crime – unless, of course, they are mere unpeople.
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US Political News Is a Fool’s Game
“Game On” was Rick Santorum’s first comment after his “surge” was considered successful with a mere 30,000 votes in Ioway. He inadvertently gave the game away by calling it …
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America’s Financial Leviathan
Berkeley, CA - In 1950, finance and insurance in the United States accounted for 2.8% of GDP, according to US Department of Commerce estimates. By 1960, that share had …
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GOP Candidate Contempt for Blacks Continues
Think: When black people (otherwise knows as 40 million Americans) have come up in GOP presidential candidate discussion during the march towards the Iowa Caucus in what context has …
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Keynes’ Predictions Proven Spectacularly Accurate
(Image: CartoonArts International / The New York Times ) The economist Dean Baker is once again justifiably mad at Robert Samuelson at The Washington Post who, in …
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Why Is Wisconsin Different?
At this writing, as organized signature-gathering groups and thousands of individual collectors press onward, a recall election for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and his hapless lieutenant, Rebecca Kleefisch, now …
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The Decline of the Public Good
Meryl Streep’s eery reincarnation of Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady” brings to mind Thatcher’s most famous quip, “there is no such thing as ‘society.’” None of the dwindling …
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“The Iron Lady”: The Margaret Thatcher Movie We Don’t Need
The Iron Lady just opened in London where, let's hope, it generates some serious critique. The critical silence in the United States has been astounding, only made worse by …
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Obama Makes Recess Appointments to NLRB. Is It Enough for AFL-CIO Endorsement?
President Barack Obama talks on the phone in the Oval Office. (Photo: Pete Souza / White House) Washington, DC - Today, President Obama made three recess appointments …
“The High Comedy of Alternate Reality”; or, “Ah … Iowa”
Please don't expect me to take the 2012 GOP Iowa caucus seriously.