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Thomas Freidman Spews Nonsense with Hurricane Force
Yes, it’s Sunday and Thomas Friedman has another of his whacky big picture columns: “Now let me say that in English: the European Union is cracking up. …
Bill McKibben: Will Hurricane Irene Be a Wake-Up Call About Climate Change? (2)
Hurricane Irene received a massive amount media coverage, but television reports made little or no reference to the role global warming played in the storm. We speak with someone …
Bill McKibben: Will Hurricane Irene Be a Wake-Up Call About Climate Change?
Hurricane Irene received a massive amount media coverage, but television reports made little or no reference to the role global warming played in the storm. We speak with someone …
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Understand the Right’s Attack on Social Security (2)
You hear over and over that Social Security is "in trouble" or that we "can't afford it." This is as far from true as can be, and the idea …
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Catering to the Rich
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On Wisconsin
At the end of the night of Wisconsin’s first round of recall elections, now some two weeks ago, liberal heads were hanging low. Democrats needed to take back three …
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Pipeline Protests: Beyond the Usual Suspects
On Sunday, August 21, dozens of people continued the two-week long daily sit-in at the White House to protest the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. (Photo: Milan Ilnyckyj …
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Refugee Centers Breed Mental Illness
Melbourne - Concern is growing for the mental health of thousands of people locked up indefinitely in this country’s immigration detention system. In July, the office of …
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Drowning Government in a Hurricane (Why Wait for a Bathtub?)
"Shrinking government" in American political discourse has, for decades now, meant the following. We enlarge the government's budget through taxation and penalties on working people and through borrowing and …
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Three Charts to Email to Your Right-Wing Brother-In-Law
Federal spending dramatically increased under former president, George W. Bush and it has not increased much under President Obama. (Photo: Eric Draper / White House) Problem: Your …