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Op-Ed
How Disney Magic and the Corporate Media Shape Youth Identity in the Digital Age
Youth are now assaulted by a never-ending proliferation of marketing strategies that colonize their consciousness and daily lives.
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High-Stakes Blackmail: “Malefactors of Great Wealth“
(Photo: Avelino Maestas) When I recalled that phrase recently, I was sure it had been coined by Franklin D. Roosevelt against the Big Business opponents of the …
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Economics is Always the First Casualty of Politics
President Barack Obama meets with senior advisors in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Aug. 12, 2011. (Photo: Chuck Kennedy / White House) Both the past …
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Saudi Arabia vs. the Arab Spring
Rugiya Hassan joins the protest with her son Hamza Jouad, 5, in Pearl Square in Manama, Bahrain, on February 23, 2011. (Photo: Andrea Bruce / The New York Times) …
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How Washington Could Create Jobs Right Now
(Photo: Brian Talbot / Flickr) I like to ask friends about the oddest summer job they ever had. One talks about how he used to don a …
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Bush III Takes His Stand in South Carolina
It was a hero America needed, a hero central to his time, a man whose personality might suggest contradiction and mysteries which could reach into the alienated circuits of …
The Unacceptables
And so begins again the Herculean task of wrapping my poor, abused mind around yet another crop of Faustian caricatures.
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Getting What You Pay for: Super Committee’s Super-Close Ties to Banking and Finance
This just in: The folks at Maplight have released some disturbing numbers on who has been the most generous to the 12 members of the newly-formed Joint Select Committee …
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Where’s the Syria Plan?
Washington - It's hard to argue with President Obama's call for Bashar al-Assad, the bloodthirsty Syrian dictator, to step down. But it's also hard to discern any logic or …
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A Success Story as Big as Texas? Actually, That’s a Myth
Rick Perry, the governor of Texas and Republican presidential candidate. (Photo: Erich Schlegel / The New York Times.) Texas has been adding jobs faster than the rest …