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Dispatch from Detention: A Rare Look Inside Our “Humane” Immigration Jails
(Photo: Eric Thayer / The New York Times) Sam Kitching, a soft-spoken, round old man dressed in civilian clothes who works for the Sheriff’s department at the …
Recognizing the “Unpeople”
Kidnapping civilians is plainly a serious crime – unless, of course, they are mere unpeople.
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New Hampshire Primary Outcome Rests on Independents
Windham, New Hampshire - The outcome of Tuesday's New Hampshire primary probably depends on this state's historically flinty, unpredictable independent voters. About 40 percent of the state's …
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For Iranians Waylaid by Pirates, US to the Rescue
Aboard the fishing vessel al Mulahi, in the Gulf of Oman - Senior Iranian military officials this week bluntly warned an American aircraft carrier that it would confront the …
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US Political News Is a Fool’s Game
“Game On” was Rick Santorum’s first comment after his “surge” was considered successful with a mere 30,000 votes in Ioway. He inadvertently gave the game away by calling it …
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Harder for Americans to Rise From Lower Rungs
Washington, DC - Benjamin Franklin did it. Henry Ford did it. And American life is built on the faith that others can do it, too: rise from humble origins …
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America’s Financial Leviathan
Berkeley, CA - In 1950, finance and insurance in the United States accounted for 2.8% of GDP, according to US Department of Commerce estimates. By 1960, that share had …
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GOP Candidate Contempt for Blacks Continues
Think: When black people (otherwise knows as 40 million Americans) have come up in GOP presidential candidate discussion during the march towards the Iowa Caucus in what context has …
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Keynes’ Predictions Proven Spectacularly Accurate
(Image: CartoonArts International / The New York Times ) The economist Dean Baker is once again justifiably mad at Robert Samuelson at The Washington Post who, in …
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Fallujah Babies: Birth Defects Blamed on US Weapons
Fallujah, Iraq - While the US military has formally withdrawn from Iraq, doctors and residents of Fallujah are blaming weapons like depleted uranium and white phosphorous used during two …