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America and the Great Disappointment
(Photo: Jacek Sniecikowski) I was considering having myself dusted with ash and measured for sackcloth last week, so many are the current predictions of impending apocalypse. …
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From Prosperity to Austerity: Dialing Down Our Expectations
In the middle of the 1982 recession, with the worst unemployment since the Depression, Ronald Reagan gravely looked into the camera and told us that prosperity was right around …
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I Remember America
President Barack Obama returns to the Oval Office. (Photo: Pete Souza / White House) It has not always been this way. Maybe we're all suckers for the …
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An Inferior Argument for American Superiority
(Image: CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate) Aaron Carroll, in his health-care-focused blog “The Incidental Economist,” had a very good takedown of a recent Wall …
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Government Shutdown Averted, but at What Cost?
Congressional leaders and President Barack Obama reached an eleventh hour budget deal on Friday night, to fund the government for the rest of the 2011 fiscal year and avert …
Not Why, but How: To the Shores of (and Skies Above) Tripoli
A president, being the most powerful man in the world, begins history anew -- so at least Americans pretend to believe.
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What It Will Take to Get to Equal Pay
(Photo: mirimcfly) Have you heard the one about the CEO who sits down to eat with two workers, one male and one female? The table holds a …
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Lesser-Evil Math Doesn’t Compute: Freedom Plaza Has the Same Name as Tahrir Square
In an electoral system corrupted by money, media, and parties, the US people are offered a choice every four years between two hideously awful candidates for an office that …
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Demanding the Impossible
Washington - Far-right Republicans are winning the budget wars because they understand something that nobody else in Washington seems to grasp: The old truism about politics being the art …
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The Geopolitics of Stupid
He's an activist who has used the Internet to fight for what he believes in. He is a member of civil society committed to living in truth. He doesn't …