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How China Plans to Leapfrog the American Economy (and It’s Not What You Think)
Many Americans are already concerned about China’s growing economic challenge to the United States. Indeed, the challenge itself is hardly news anymore. But a new book, Red Alert …
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Theories and Hoaxes Are Blurring Reality
After his End Times prediction failed last week millionaire radio prophet Harold Camping eventually came up with an excuse. During his show "Open Forum" in Oakland on May 23, …
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Europe’s SB1070
CRS officer at a student demonstration. (Photo: Martin Le Roy) Arizona, for Americans, has come to symbolize anti-immigrant hysteria codified into law. Under its highly controversial terms, …
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Medicare: “Biggest Deficit Driver” or “Solution” to Economic Recovery?
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, speaks to reporters in Washington on Wednesday, April 1, 2009. (Photo: Stephen Crowley / The New York …
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An All-American Retirement System: Building for the Future
(Photo: Markus Reuter / Flickr) While Congress bickers and the president dithers, roads are crumbling, bridges are failing, dams are cracking and water and sewer systems are …
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The Political Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan turned seventy [earlier this week]. The following essay is adapted from The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame, which Nation …
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Netanyahu’s Border War
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with President Barack Obama during Middle East peace talks in Washington, on September 1, 2010. (Photo: Drew Angerer / The New York Times) …
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Awakening to the Limits of the Obama Presidency
(Photo: Philip Scott Andrews / The New York Times) There are folks who seem to keep hoping that Obama has a "progressive" side which we will all …
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The Crisis in America’s Ghettos
In case you didn't know it, what's called a "recession" in White America is called a "depression" in Black America. During much of last year white unemployment held steady …
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“Angola 3” Mark 39 Years in Solitary Confinement
Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox have entered their 40th year in solitary confinement in the Louisiana prison system. A series of events in New Orleans last month marked the …