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The Urgent New Reality for US Labor Unions
The recent shakeup in Wisconsin is likely a preliminary tremor that predicts a larger earthquake. And like all natural disasters, the events in Wisconsin jolted people awake to grapple …
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Will the Courts Wreck Health Care?
As if our political system was not having enough trouble already, we now confront the possibility that a highly partisan judiciary will undo a modest health care reform that …
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Boehner’s Unreality Check
Washington - The news out of House Speaker John Boehner's speech to the New York Economic Club was his demand for "cuts of trillions, not just billions" before the …
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The Tenfold Path to Guts, Solidarity and the Defeat of the Corporate Elite
Many Americans know that the United States is not a democracy but a "corporatocracy," in which we are ruled by a partnership of giant corporations, the extremely wealthy elite …
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Helping the Neediest Among Us
Yachts docked at Corpus Christi, Texas. (Photo: Jim Nix / Nomadic Pursuits) To be fair to lawmakers, it's not easy making the tough spending choices in these …
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Britain Still Awaits Good Results From Bad Ideas
Protesters gathered in central London in March to demonstrate against government spending cuts. (Photo: Andrew Testa / The New York Times) The bad gross domestic product …
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The Targeted Assassination of Osama bin Laden
When he announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed by a Navy Seal team in Pakistan, President Barack Obama said, “Justice has been done.” Mr. Obama misused the …
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Evangelical Homophobia-Planting in Uganda: A Tough Seed With Poisonous Fruit
Christian extremists in Uganda's parliament are hoping that hunger and high gas prices will provide the cover they need to finally subject gay men to punishment of biblical proportions. …
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Why the NFL Would Do Us a Favor by Calling Off the Coming Season
There's nothing like a little dust-up between millionaires and billionaires to start us thousandaires yawning. And when the upcoming pro football season is in danger of being cancelled because …
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Your Taxes Fund Anti-Muslim Hatred
News personalities, politicians, self-appointed experts on the Muslim world, and law enforcement and intelligence officials, as well as the Christian right, have successfully demonized Muslims in the United States …