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Detroit: A New American Frontier
Detroit, Michigan. (Photo: dharder9475) Detroit has become a byword for extreme urban contraction. Yet as the population, industry, and built environment of the city of …
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Speaker Boehner’s Disgrace
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) at the Capitol in Washington, July 25, 2011. (Photo: Philip Scott Andrews / The New York Times) Seldom have we witnessed a …
Unequal Protection: Protecting Corporate Liars
(Image: JR / Truthout) The first direct shot across the bow of the doctrine of a corporation’s “right to lie” by using its “personhood” to claim First …
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Crash Club: What Happens When Three Sputtering Economies Collide?
(Photo: doncav) When my old gang and I were 14 or 15 years old, many centuries ago, we yearned for immortality in the fiery wreck of a …
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Obama’s Latest Debt Ceiling Offer Is to the Right of Gang of Six and Simpson-Bowles – GOP Still Says No
As the Washington Monthly’s Steve Benen noted today, Democrats have bent over backwards to craft a deal to raise the federal debt ceiling, only to berebuffed at every turn …
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FAA in Partial Shutdown; Air Traffic Unaffected
Reporting from Washington - The Federal Aviation Administration was forced into a partial shutdown Monday after Congress failed to temporarily extend its funding. The agency was ordered to furlough …
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So This Is Despair
President Barack Obama speaks to reporters during a news conference about the nation's deficit and increasing the debt limit, at the White House in Washington on July 11, 2011. …
New York Times Reporting Misses the Mark on Iceland, Prints Neoliberal Line
Icelandic bank Glitnir was nationalized and rebranded as Islandsbanki before it was sold back to its former creditors. (Photos: kfcatles, Li'l Wolf) "Everyone is entitled to his …
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Emails Show White House Promotes Genetically Engineered Crops in Wildlife Refuges
Monsanto researchers in Stonington, Illinois, are working to develop new soybean varieties in this July 2006 file photo. According to PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch, "The White House is …