Truthout
Op-Ed
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Labor Not Represented in Management of “the People’s Universities“
Although more than one million Pennsylvanians are members of labor unions, and the state has a long history of worker exploitation and union activism, neither of the two largest …
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Europe’s Transition From Social Democracy to Oligarchy
As first published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: The easiest way to understand Europe’s financial crisis is to look at the solutions being proposed to resolve it. They …
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How to Turn Election Year Into Election Life
President Barack Obama waves to the crowd before speaking at Osawatomie High School in Osawatomie, Kansas, on December 6, 2011. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times) …
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The Private Insurance Market
I’m currently in the process of buying long-term care insurance—you know, so my daughter won’t have to take care of me when I’m old. I have a good agent …
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Don’t Call Gingrich a “Lobbyist“
Mea culpa, I misspoke, my bad. I stand corrected. I have called Newt Gingrich a lobbyist. Apparently, he hates that tag, even though he has indeed gotten …
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Robert Reich | The Remarkable Political Stupidity of Wall Street
Wall Street is its own worst enemy. It should have welcomed new financial regulation as a means of restoring public trust. Instead, it’s busily shredding new regulations and making …
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Short Tales From Bizarro World: The GOP Primaries Edition
Former Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts speaking at CPAC 2011 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) Bahwitabah da bang da bang diggy diggy diggy said the boogie …
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Occupy Ourselves
In just a few short months we have reached a point of near saturation in which the modifier “Occupy” has been applied to almost every sphere of our beleaguered …
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Healers, Torture and National Security
An interrogation room at Guantanamo Bay as seen on March 19, 2004. Detainees wear shackles that are attached to the ring on the floor. (Photo: Angel Franco / The …
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In the Euro Zone, Looming Catastrophe (2)
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 …