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Indefensible Claims About Job Creation – and Job Destruction
Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, campaigning in New Hampshire in August 2011. (Photo: Cheryl Senter / The New York Times) Greg Sargent is rightly outraged …
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A Voters’ Rights Amendment as a Focus for Dissent
A voter at a polling station at Parker-Varney School in Manchester, New Hampshire, January 10, 2012. (Photo: Nathaniel Brooks/The New York Times) Unification of the Tea Party …
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US Ranks 27th in Social Justice
“USA: We're No. 1!” Oh, wait — Iceland is No. 1. But we did beat out Poland and Slovakia, right? Uh...no. But go on down the rankings …
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Why I’m Suing Barack Obama
A guard in a cell block at Camp 6, Camp Delta, located at the Guantanamo Naval Station in Cuba, in October, 2007. (Photo: Todd Heisler / The New York …
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Why Development Aid Is Not Enough
Oslo - Poverty is not only about not having enough money. It is also about exploitation and oppression, and about armed conflicts and wars that make it impossible to …
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After Battling Fracking and Cancer, Lucinda Lost, and Found
Lucinda Hart-Gonzalez with her chickens. (Photo: Howard Nuernberger) Her joy was in sustaining our farm against the threat of fracking. After Lucinda's ashes become a part of …
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Threatened Species
So, I'm hitting the elliptical at Planet Fitness on Tuesday, presidential caucus day in Iowa, watching CNN on the personalized flat-screen TV bolted to my exercise contraption, and there's …
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Fire Hose of Your Tax Money Gushes to Libya
Passersby look at the home of Ali Mukhar Al-Gharari, which was struck by one large piece of aircraft-delivered ordnance, in Tripoli, November 13, 2011. According to on-the-ground examinations of …
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The Dream That Came True
Washington - He would be an elder statesman now, a lion in winter, an American hero perhaps impatient with the fuss being made over his birthday. At 83, he'd …
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Big Shoulders in Chicago and Kabul: Get Ready for NATO in May
NATO Secretary General Anders Rasmussen. (Photo: Staff Sgt. Eric Wilson / Flickr) Kabul - NATO/G8 meetings are scheduled to take place from May 19-21 this year in …