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Making the Progressive Case
Washington - Do progressives care about reducing the national debt? Of course they do, no matter what the White House might believe. …

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Gaza and a Liturgy for Justice
Demonstrators on the American boat, "The Audacity of Hope," (Photo: Nadia Shira Cohen / The New York Times) We passengers on the US Boat to Gaza represent …

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Default, Downturn, Then Recovery
The Woman’s Bridge, in a fast-growing neighborhood in Buenos Aires. Argentina’s economy is recovering after a default in 2003. (Photo: Horacio Paone for the New York Times) …

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Four Reasons Why Pfc. Bradley Manning Deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Not a Prison Cell
We still don’t know if he did it or not, but if Bradley Manning, the 24-year-old Army private from Oklahoma, actually supplied WikiLeaks with its choicest material — the …

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Washington Dysfunction: A Scorecard
Washington - Here's why getting to a deal on the debt ceiling is so complicated. President Obama's main goal is to get through this fight with the …

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In Israel, a Tsunami Warning
A Palestinian demonstrator argues with an Israeli soldier, while other protesters run a bulldozer into a fence barrier close by, near the village of Bilin on the West Bank, …

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Flotilla Passengers Are Today’s Freedom Riders
Demonstrators on the American boat, "The Audacity of Hope," which plans to be part of the international flotilla to Gaza, at a port near Athens, Greece, June 30, 2011. …

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Bachmann Flunks Canadian History, Too
Michelle Bachman speaks at a Tea Party Rally in Washinton DC, March 31, 2011. (Photo: markn3tel) Travel, they say, improves the mind, a notion once rightly castigated …

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The Tea Party and Goldman Sachs: A Love Story
A view of the Goldman Sachs building at 200 West street in New York, April, 18, 2010. Last year Goldman Sachs spent $4.6 million lobbying Congress to soften the …

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Massey Energy’s Man-Made Hellhole
Paul Jackson, director of operations, right, talks with a miner inside Teco Energy's E3-1 coal mine in Hazard, Ky., on April 14, 2010. Investigations into the Upper Big Branch …