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Suffocating Austerity: The West’s Folly in Greece Repeats Old Patterns
The troika's attack on Greek sovereignty recalls the devastation of the Fourth Crusade, but there is an honorable way to resolve Greece's debt crisis.
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Americans for Prosperity Rally Calls for “Nullifying” Health Care Law (With Help From ALEC)
The evening after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Wisconsin chapter of the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity held a "Hands Off My …
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Bank Scandal Turns Spotlight to Regulators
Politicians in both London and Washington are questioning whether regulators allowed banks to report false rates in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis and afterward.
Conservative Christianity’s Marketing Gimmick to Keep Its Old-Time, Heaven-and-Hell Religion Afloat
LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on tThe Southern Baptist Convention is a force to be reckoned with. As the …
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The GOP’s Crime Against Voters
The Republican-led crusade for voter ID laws is revealed as a cynical ploy to disenfranchise as many likely Democratic voters as possible, with poor people and minorities the main …
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Department of Labor to Investigate Union Busting on Army Base Following ITT Report
After reading an exclusive report that appeared at Working In These Times, the Department of Labor has opened an investigation into captive-audience anti-union meetings held on an army base …
How Scalia Distorts the Framers
In rejecting the Commerce Clause as the constitutional foundation for the Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Courtu2019s right-wing justices distorted Americau2019s founding narrative, including one made-up view attributed to …
Explosive Increase in Mobile Data Requests Means Congress Needs to Act Now on Digital Privacy
The actual number of people swept up in the cell phone surveillance could be ten, twenty or thirty times higher than 1.3 million because many of the law enforcement …
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Apologies to Mexico: The Drug Trade and Gross National Pain
The drug war is fueled by many things, and maybe the worst drug of all is money, to which so many are so addicted that they can never get …
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Blame Politics, Not Economics, for This Enduring Crisis
So why the sense that macroeconomics is a mess? Iu2019d say that itu2019s essentially political.