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Black Bloc: The Cancer in Occupy
Black Bloc anarchists, arms locked together, demonstrate against the World Bank in Washington, DC, on April 17, 2011. (Photo: Collin David Anderson) The Black Bloc anarchists, who …
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America’s Plutocrats Play the Political Ponies
Life sometimes imitates art. Life also sometimes imitates political cliché. The cliché in this case: the notion that tunnel-vision political reporting has reduced campaigns for American public office to …
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Anniversaries From “Unhistory“
Flying under radar control with a B-66 Destroyer, Air Force F-105 Thunderchief pilots bomb a military target through low clouds over the southern panhandle of North Vietnam. June 14, …
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America’s Jobs Deficit, and Why It’s Still More Important Than the Budget Deficit
President Barack Obama delivers remarks to plant workers at the Chrysler Group Toledo Supplier Park in Toledo, Ohio, on Friday, June 3, 2011. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New …
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US Elections vs. the Environment: The Stigma of Successful Regulation
What will the presidential election in November mean for U.S. environmental policy? Although we don’t yet know who the Republican candidate will be, we know all too well what …
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Romney’s Indifference to the Poor
Washington - I wish Mitt Romney's cavalier dismissal of poverty in America could be chalked up as just another gaffe, but it's much worse than that. The Republican front-runner …
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Why the “Liberal” Media Leaves Hawkish Foreign Policy Unchallenged
(Photo: Scott / Flickr) A recent article by foreign policy analyst Robert Naiman, examines The New York Times' current coverage of Iran's nuclear program. In it, he …
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New Rules for Radicals: Ten Ways to Spark Change in a Post-Occupy World
The first rule is this: The world is different now. The rules have changed. Since Occupy, we all understand this. Nothing works now the way …
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Mitt, Mormons and Money
(Photo: Gage Skidmore / Flickr) Growing up in a family with ties to founders of the Mormon Church, at an early age I learned a little about …
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The Culture of Debt
In an article in Newsweek, Niall Ferguson argues that, the main reason why Americans should care about the European debt crisis is that “what is happening in Europe today …