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One Hundred-Thirty Years After His Birth, We Still Live in FDR’s World
Government has a final responsibility for the well-being of its citizenship. If private cooperative endeavor fails to provide work for willing hands and relief for the unfortunate, those suffering …
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Today, Republican Candidates Have to Be Cynical or Foolish
(Image: CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate) Steve Benen, a contributor at Washington Monthly, noted online on Jan. 18 that by normal standards, Mitt Romney …
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A New Resolve: Reflections for the New Year
US Special Forces rush a severely wounded Afghan National Army soldier to a medical helicopter from the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade after his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device …
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The Party People of Wall Street
(Photo: hakee) A week or so ago, we read in The New York Times about what in the Gilded Age of the Roman Empire was known as …
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What Happened to Canada?
Police confront protesters outside 2010's G-20 meeting in Toronto, Canada, June 25, 2010. (Photo: G20 Protest Photos) What happened to Canada? It used to be the country …
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We Have Every Right to Be Furious About ACTA
If there’s one thing that encapsulates what’s wrong with the way government functions today, ACTA is it. You wouldn’t know it from the name, but the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is a plurilateral …
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Teachers Inject Their Own Message Into Union-Busters’ Twitter Campaign
In the last year, the national education debate has been occupied by economists, billionaires, hedge-fund managers, corporate columnists and party-politicians –indeed, it seems like the further a person is …
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What Is Private Equity?
Recently, a lot of the political debate has been about whether private equity—and by extension Mitt Romney—is good or bad. The argument on one side is that private equity …
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How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the “One Percent“
Swedish flag. (Photo: morberg) While many of us are working to ensure that the Occupy movement will have a lasting impact, it’s worthwhile to consider other countries …
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All Rousseau’s Fault!
La faute à Rousseau!#[1] - so goes the refrain of the famous song of Hugo’s famous heroic street urchin Gavroche in Les Misérables, the first part of which runs …