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After Gutting Their Wages, Michigan GOP Senate Leader Says He Wants To Help Teachers With Right-To-Work Law
On Friday, Michigan Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville (R) announced that he would soon be introducing new legislation he is calling the “Freedom To Teach” bill. The legislation would …
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US Trade Policy: Moving Backward in the 21st Century
Three years into the Obama Administration, progressives have no shortage of complaints about the president’s economic policies, which seem very much at odds with Candidate Obama’s soaring rhetoric. Economic …
How Are Genetically Engineered Crops Affecting Foods?
If you shop in major grocery stores, chances are you’re eating genetically modified organisms (GMOs) with your breakfast, lunch, and dinner. An estimated 70 percent of processed foods, including …
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New Documents Reveal FBI’s Islamophobic Counterterrorism Training
Counterterrorism agents at the FBI’s training center in Quantico, Virginia are being taught that “devout” Muslims are more likely to be “violent” and that American Muslims are likely to …
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The Party Line – Shaken, but Still Not Stirred
Sunday, September 11, will of course be the tenth anniversary of a tragedy that fundamentally changed America in ways we are still trying to understand. But this 9/11 is …
The Republican Weapon of Mass Cynicism
According to the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, 77 percent of Americans say they “feel things have gotten pretty seriously off on the wrong track” in this country. That’s …
Georgia Plans to Kill Troy Davis Next Week. Can It Still Be Stopped?
The order was signed on Sept. 6, at 3:53 p.m. “Within a time period commencing at noon on the 21st day of September … Troy Anthony Davis shall be …
I Am Troy Davis (T.R.O.Y.)
Famine Ravages Somalia in a World Less Likely to Intervene
Dolo, Somalia - Is the world about to watch 750,000 Somalis starve to death? The United Nations’ warnings could not be clearer. A drought-induced famine is steadily creeping across …
Has American-Style Conservatism Become a Religion?
As the American right lurches from traditional conservatism – a go-slow approach to governing that stresses the importance of continuity and social stability – to a far more reactionary …