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The Vaccination Nation
(Photo: Moyers & Co.) We haven’t even turned the page on the controversy over contraceptives, health care and religious freedom, when another thorny one arises involving personal …
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Stop Starving Public Universities and Shrinking the Middle Class (2)
Last week Rick Santorum called the President “a snob” for wanting everyone to get a college education (in fact, Obama never actually called for universal college education but only …
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Regaining a Spirit of Defiance
The course of action taken by the present-day U.S. political class in addressing the era’s rising tide of economic hardship and ecological peril has proven as helpful as tossing …
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The Two Cadillacs Fallacy
Former Gov. Mitt Romney speaking at the 2012 CPAC in Washington, DC, February 10, 2012. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) Washington - Maybe Rick Santorum is helping Mitt Romney …
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C. Wright Mills Would Have Loved Occupy Wall Street
C. Wright Mills. (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) C. Wright Mills, the radical Columbia University sociologist who died 50 years ago (March 20, 1962) at age 45, …
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The Keystone XL Flim-Flam
For Rep. Allen West, the skyrocketing price of gasoline is not just a policy matter, it's a personal pocketbook issue. The Florida tea-party Republican (who, of course, blames President …
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Landing on Mars: A First Impression of Guantanamo Bay
The entrance of the prison at Camp Delta in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on June 8, 2010. (Photo: Richard Perry / The New York Times) One pair …
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America’s Image Problem
The United States definitely sends mixed messages to the Muslim world. Early in his presidency, Barack Obama went to Cairo to “seek a new beginning between the United States …
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Military Strikes Not the Answer in Syria
Protesters gather after the funeral of a member of the Free Syrian Army, a militia mostly made up of army defectors, in the Damascus suburb of Saqba, in Syria, …
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In the US, Stimulate Demand by Reversing Local Austerity
(Image: Kazanevsky, Ukraine / CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate) One question that arises when we talk about the possibility of reversing the disastrous push …