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Op-Ed

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The Tea Party and Goldman Sachs: A Love Story
A view of the Goldman Sachs building at 200 West street in New York, April, 18, 2010. Last year Goldman Sachs spent $4.6 million lobbying Congress to soften the …

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Massey Energy’s Man-Made Hellhole
Paul Jackson, director of operations, right, talks with a miner inside Teco Energy's E3-1 coal mine in Hazard, Ky., on April 14, 2010. Investigations into the Upper Big Branch …

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Industry Views Prevail on Radiation Risks, Health Experts Unheard on Health Effects of Fukushima
US media coverage of the nuclear disaster in Japan contains vanishingly little serious discussion of the human health risks posed by the radiation escaping from the Fukushima nuclear facility. …

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A New Dawn for the US Left
Protesters demonstrate against provisions of Governor Walker's Budget Repair Bill, February, 2011, Madison, Wisconsin. (Photo: Richard Hurd) Prospects for the left in the United States are far …

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For a Struggling Economy, Fatalism May Be Deadly
(Image: CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate) Our current economic discourse in the United States is pervaded by fatalism. Leave aside the people who insist …

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What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Jobs: Black Unemployment
Johnny R. Williams, pictured in New York on Nov. 24, 2009, has scrubbed his resume of any details that might tip-off his skin color. "If they’re going to X …

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Wall Street Versus Main Street
Leaving a hearing before the subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee a few weeks ago, a pleasant woman approached us and introduce herself, noting she and her companions …

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Are Subsidized Student Loans Worth the Price?
Students in class at Simmons College. (Photo: stevegarfield) Previous guest blogger Anastasia Wilson has written a post on her own blog comparing the student loan racket (for-profit …

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Universal Health Care: Can We Afford Anything Less?
Dr. William Dewar III examines a patient in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, January 17, 2011. (Photo: Nicole Bengiveno / The New York Times) America’s broken health-care system suffers from …

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Our Incredible Shrinking Constitution
Today is the anniversary of the day that the nation’s founders, gathered in Philadelphia a few miles from my house (which as it happens had already been standing for …