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Rectifying the Facts About Quinoa
Lavoie-Mathieu's examination of the facts behind media claims that quinoa's growing popularity is socially and environmentally destructive comes to a more nuanced conclusion.
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The Links Between Food, Fuel and Finance: A Threat to Food Security
We must get food out of our gas tanks.
Before Next Crash, Create Finance System That Serves Public, Part I: Shrink, Regulate Banks, and Enforce LawÂ
If we don't like Wall Street finance, what should we replace it with?
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Private Sector Better, Cheaper? Not at All
Itu2019s become popular among Republicans (and plenty of Democrats) to decry public workers as overpaid and inefficient.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Mayors Against Illegal Guns Create Grading System to Score Lawmakers on Gun Safety, and More
In today's On the News segment: The former chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said that all 104 nuclear power plants in our nation should phased out for newer …
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Obama, Don’t Step in the GOP Budget Trap
When it comes to cutting Social Security with the Republican Chained CPI, please, as Nancy Reagan so famously said, Just say, No!
Noam Chomsky – Why Marijuana is Illegal and Tobacco is Legal
Critical Thinking Gone Missing
In 2008 Rick Shenkman, the Editor-in-Chief of the History News Network, published a book entitled Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth about the American Voter (Basic Books). …
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Chuck Norris: A Bar of Soap and a Box of Rocks
When combating repulsive fundamentalist Christian religious supremacists like Chuck Norris, you don't need to be a martial arts black belt. You only need to consider the telling attributes of …
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How the 40-Year “Long Recession” Led to the Great Recession
If you had to date the Great Recession, you might say it started in September 2008 when Lehman Brothers vaporized over a weekend and a massive mortgage-based Ponzi scheme …