Truthout
Op-Ed
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Dividing the Spoils
Our government has become a clearing house for corporations and plutocrats whose dollars grease the wheels for lucrative contracts and easy regulation.
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PolitiFact Left the House Without Its Pants On
In all of their fact-checking and flaw detection, PunditFact missed the point that I was trying to make.
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Paying Off Student Debt Is Saving
Paying off student loan debt, just like paying off credit card debt or paying down a mortgage, is a form of saving.
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Commemorate Universal Children’s Day: End Child Labor
In the US, we should move to ratify the CRC. Only the US and Somalia have not done so.
Cashing in on the ISIS Crisis
No matter how pointless these wars prove, America's military-industrial complex makes a killing.
Something Big Is Changing in the Fight for Reproductive Freedom – Women Are Done With Being Shamed
Judge less. Listen more. Tell your story even if your voice shakes. - Can a new approach help us past the abortion impasse?
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Don’t Raise Taxes Just Yet, Japan
Right now Japan is struggling to escape from a deflationary trap.
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G20 and Beyond: The Future Is Watching You
The G20 summit meeting has two levels: the overt grandstanding that politicians love, and a far more sinister agenda.
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The 2014 Midterm Elections, Incorporated
In Washington, it doesn't matter if you are a Republican, Democrat or independent: Money reigns supreme.
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Community Corrections: Profiteering, Corruption and Widening the Net
How is it that so-called reform measures, marketed as reducing prison populations, will ultimately widen the net?