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Rooted in Politics, Austerity Worsens the Greek Tragedy
The Athenian Municipal Solidarity Center provides meals to homeless and poor residents of Athens. (Credit: Eirini Vourloumis / The New York Times) The Washington Post recently …
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The Washington-Wall Street Revolving Door Keeps Spinning
From left: Jack Lew, director of the Office of Management and Budget, President Barack Obama, and William Daley, the White House chief of staff, at a news conference in …
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Winners and Losers in America’s Wars
The twenty-first century hasn’t exactly been America’s greatest moment. Still, there remain winners, along with all the losers you might care to mention. If, in fact, you were to …
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Afghanistan’s Poppy War
For a symbol of how America's decade-long war is going in faraway Afghanistan, look at the beautiful fields of red poppies flowering so bountifully there. Unfortunately, that bounty symbolizes …
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Why Keep the Capital Gains Tax Break?
Mitt Romney's ultra-low tax rate on his ultra-high income is reviving questions about the breaks and perks that the wealthiest of the 1% receive from the rest of us. …
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“Any President Would Have Done” the Same as Obama?
During recent interviews, presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said “any president” would have given the order that launched the raid that killed Osama bin Laden last year. Republican candidates know they cannot be opposed …
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The State of Our Disunion: A Globalizing Private Sector; a Government Overwhelmed by Corporate Money
Who should have the primary strategic responsibility for making American workers globally competitive – the private sector or government? This will be a defining issue in the 2012 campaign. …
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Aftershocking: Frontline’s Fukushima Documentary a Lazy Apologia for the Nuclear Industry
There is much to say about this week’s Frontline documentary, “Nuclear Aftershocks,” and some of it would even be good. For the casual follower of nuclear news in the ten months …
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Righteous Abortion: How Conservative Christianity Promotes What It Claims to Hate
One of the great ironies of American society is that most abortions in the U.S. are caused by conservative Christians. Read the statistics: Forty nine percent of pregnancies in this …
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The Corporate State Will Be Broken
A protester with the Occupy Wall Street movement waves to Auubi, a 17-month-old boy whose father was also demonstrating, on the grounds of the Capitol in Washington, on January …