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Op-Ed
The “Suicidal State” and the War on Youth
For over thirty years, the North American public has been reared on a neoliberal dystopian vision.
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How Occupy Wall Street Plans to Take Down Bank of America, and How You Can Help
Bank of America: the very name is meant to conjure up comforting, red-white-and-blue fantasies of a bank of the people, by the people, and for the people. But as Matt …
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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) …