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Life on Mars? Searching for Signs In the Cosmos, and on Earth
Forty years ago, David Bowie asked the musical question, u201cIs there life on Mars?u201d Bowieu2019s song embodied an escapist sensibility, a longing for life elsewhere to break the doldrums …
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Pussy Riot’s Appeal for Justice
A Russian judge has sentenced three female u201cpunku201d rockers from the group u201cPussy Riotu201d to two years in prison for performing a protest song at a Moscow cathedral, what …
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“We Have No Choice But to Step Up”: Youth Activists Come Together to Build a Movement for Student Power
Student organizers from around the country (and the world) gathered in Columbus to help build a unified, strong student movement, learn from one another, and take action.
A Community on Overdose
During the two years Joe Sacco and I reported from the poorest pockets of the United States, areas that have been sacrificed before the altar of unfettered and unregulated …
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Skilled Work, Without the Worker
At the Philips Electronics factory on the coast of China, hundreds of workers use their hands and specialized tools to assemble electric shavers. That is the old way.
Revealed: Romney Campaign’s Attempts to Deny Paul Ryan’s Insider Trading Don’t Add Up
Team Romney wants you to believe Ryan didnu2019t really profit from privileged information. Donu2019t buy it.
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Paul Ryan and Todd Akin Partnered on Radical “Personhood” Bill
Should Ryan and Akinu2019s personhood agenda take effect, however, it would drastically reduce womenu2019s reproductive choice.
The Billionaires Bill Of Rights
Billionaire corporate interests and other well financed anti-labor forces are waging a major drive to stifle the political voice of workers and their unions in California that is certain …
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A (Not So) Serious, (Not So) Honest Running Mate
Paul Krugman: Mr. Ryan is, in fact, a big fraud who doesnu2019t care at all about fiscal responsibility.
Ignore the Deficit Hawks: Social Security Is Easy to Fix
On the 77th anniversary of Social Security, we're celebrating what has made the program so important and why it remains vital today. Jeff Madrick explains why Social Security's so-called …