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CELAC: Speaking for Latin America and the Caribbean
On Saturday, December 3rd – while most of the U.S. media was focused on the political demise of Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain and the growing financial meltdown in …
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Words That Don’t Work: Frank Luntz’s Trap for Progressives
Frank Luntz speaking at the Western Republican Leadership Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) Progressives had some fun last week with Frank Luntz, who told …
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The Most Important Economic Speech of His Presidency
The President’s speech today in Osawatomie, Kansas — where Teddy Roosevelt gave his “New Nationalism” speech in 1910 — is the most important economic speech of his presidency in …
Marching Off the Cliff
Scarcely one-third of the U.S. population believes that there is a scientific consensus on the threat of global warming.
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Nonprofit Journalism and the Need for Policy Solutions
For decades, some of the best journalism in America has been produced by nonprofit news organizations. Consider, for example, National Public Radio, National Geographic, the Associated Press, Consumer Reports, …
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A New Propaganda Push From the War Profiteers
Since the deficit committee officially failed to produce a plan as of last week, expect the war profiteer spin to hit the fan. Here’s an early warning of what …
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Lionizing Wealthy Americans, Rather Than Taxing Them
(Photo: CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate) A new paper on optimal taxes in the latest edition of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, by the …
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In the Euro Zone, Looming Catastrophe
In an online post titled “Self-Serving Myths of Europe’s Neo-Calvinists,” Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, an editor at the British newspaper The Telegraph, sends us to a very good essay from the …
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In the Lead for Exploiting the One Percent: Rupert Murdoch and the Koch Brothers
Our vote on the 1% has been vigorous since it started last week, with thousands of people rating nominees representing Wall Street, dirty energy, war profiteering, and more. We're …
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It Came From Madison Avenue
The other day I was streaming It!, an old science fiction film, and saw something odd on my computer screen. There, in the storage hold of the rocket ship …