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HB 56 Hurts Alabama’s Economy More Than It Helps
In all the debate surrounding Alabama's new immigration law, no one debates that it is the toughest in the nation. With Alabamian unemployment flirting with 10 percent and poverty …
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Bank of America Versus America the Beautiful
A public hew and cry has arisen against the announced plan of major banks to charge depositors three to five dollars a month for the use of debit cards …
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Obama’s Failing Emails: Where Did the President’s Mojo Go?
For connoisseurs, Barack Obama’s fundraising emails for the 2012 election campaign seem just a tad forlorn — slightly limp reminders of the last time ‘round. Four years …
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When Industry Pollutes, We All Pay a Steep Price
The Mountaineer power plant, a coal-burning facility in West Virginia. (Photo: Kevin Riddell / The New York Times) Economics professors Nicholas Z. Muller, Robert Mendelsohn and …
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Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now
Naomi Klein leading an open forum on Thursday, October 6, Day 21 of Occupy Wall Street. (Photo: David Shankbone) I was honored to be invited to speak …
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Occupy the Moment
Washington - Occupy Wall Street and its kindred protests around the country are inept, incoherent and hopelessly quixotic. God, I love ‘em. I love every little thing …
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Elizabeth Warren: Refuting Straw Liberals
Washington - It's not often that a sound bite from a Democratic candidate gets so under the skin of my distinguished colleague George F. Will that he feels moved …
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Happy Genocide Day!
If you fly over the country of Haiti on the island of Hispaniola, the island on which Columbus landed, it looks like somebody took a blowtorch and burned away …
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Are Lawmakers Listening? The Consumer Watchdog Vote Will Tell
The scene in lower Manhattan yesterday evening was remarkable. A broad swath of union locals and community organizations brought out their members. Students from colleges around the country walked …
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Why the Elites Are in Trouble
A group of people listen to a man talk about economic theories as the Occupy Wall Street protest continues in Zuccotti Park in New York, on October 9, 2011. …