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Ferguson Residents Challenge “Modern Debtors’ Prison Scheme” Targeting Blacks With Fines, Arrests
More than a dozen residents filed lawsuits.
American Idle: Running in Place
We talk to the newest contestant aiming to become the next American Idle.
US Senate Confirms Michael Botticelli as White House Drug Czar
Advocates praise Botticelli for taking steps toward health-based approach to drug policy. DPA issues four recommendations for Botticelli.
Middle Eastern Immolation and American Moral Values
Citizens of a free society (surely no longer our own) have a duty to consider, analyze, understand, and criticize opposing points of view, including most especially those of their …
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Robert Samuelson Is Unhappy That Seniors Get Social Security and Medicare
Robert Samuelson wants to raise the retirement age and cut Social Security and Medicare benefits.
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Jindal: From Rhodes Scholar to Dangerous Demagogue
Muslim-baiting will not end until a Republican leader steps forward and takes on the likes of Jindal or Palin or Bachmann.
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Greece: Building Solidarity and Post-Capitalist Production?
While SYRIZA has been the center of the Greece story in recent months, the continuing development of the solidarity economy, as well as the infusion of new technology, could …
What Was Netanyahu Thinking? Criticism Swirls Over Pre-Election Speech to US Congress on Iran
Controversy is mounting over Netanyahu's address.
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Housing Enforcement Group Sues M&T Bank for Discrimination
The unusual lawsuit draws on secret videotapes and recordings to argue that the bank's loan officers discriminated against blacks, Latinos and Asians who applied for mortgages.
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The Record Setter: Dr. Carl Hart
“High Price” debunks the myth that there is a direct connection between crime and drug use.