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Wal-Mart Chairman Rob Walton: The Worst of the One Percent?
Brave New Films, the film studio that produced the ground-breaking documentary, “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price,” is holding an online vote to pick the “worst of the …
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Ten Things Newt Gingrich Doesn’t Want You to Know About Him
Today, former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich announced that he is taking steps to consider becoming the GOP nominee for president in 2012. As Gingrich begins the …
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The Long Game: Payroll Taxes, Hostage-Taking, and Social Security
Yesterday Thom Hartmann and I discussed the proposal to extend and expand what Democrats have called the ‘payroll tax holiday.’ (Video is below.) There are no heroes in this …
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Beyond Choice: A New Framework for Abortion?
Every year I teach a class called “Mind, Body, and Bioethics in Japan” to a group of Princeton undergraduates made up of students drawn to ethical dilemmas—aspiring doctors, scientists, …
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It Takes People Power to Make Clear That Corporations Are NOT People
In the Nov. 8 elections, the national media gave extensive coverage to a proposed “personhood amendment” to Mississippi's state constitution. This was an extremist anti-abortion ballot initiative to declare …
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The Keystone XL Pipeline Project: Extremely Unskillful?
As thousands of people circled the White House to make known their objections to the multibillion dollar Keystone XL Project, I was again reminded of a comment by Jack …
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“We the People” vs. “We the Corporation”: Sentiment Builds for Banning Corporate Personhood, but Tough Road Ahead
Across the country, momentum has been building for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution declaring that the democratic rights and freedoms granted to people do not apply to corporations …
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Arrest McCain and Levin Now. Senate to Vote on Military Detention of Americans
If you think soldiers won't do it, think again. Some of the stupidest people on Earth join the Army, and they, in contrast to the many intelligent young …
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Exploiting Affinity to Combat US Protest
Demonstrators in New York marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to mark the two-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. (Photo: Todd Heisler / The New York Times) …
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Occupy Wall Street’s Next Challenge
One of the oldest patterns of media coverage can be summed up this way: First, they ignore you. Then, they ridicule you. Then, they realize you are a story …