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Congratulations Senator Coburn and the GOP Victory for the Rich (Video)
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Republicans Approve Regulation-Blocking Coal Bill on ALEC’s Wish List
High-resolution aerial survey photograph of the fly-ash sludge spill that resulted in December 2008 when a dike failed at the Kingston, Tennessee, power plant. Over a billion gallons of …
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There Are Jobs for Those Who Want Them. (Not)
The New York Times on Wednesday featured another Casey Mulligan episode of “There Is No Unemployment.” Mulligan's argument is that if we look at employment rates for the older …
EXCLUSIVE: The Deficit Is Not Default of Obama
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) speaks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 11, 2011. (Photo: Stephen Crowley / The New York Times) …
Paul Theroux’s “Tao of Travel“
(Image: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Last month, author Paul Theroux published his latest book “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road.” Over the course of …
A Story of the Earth Liberation Front: An Interview With Documentarian Marshall Curry
Filmmaker Marshall Curry. (Photo: Bill Gallagher) When John Muir formed the Sierra Club in 1892 and fought to pass the National Parks Bill in 1899, it is …
Amid the Murdoch Scandal, There Is the Acrid Smell of Business as Usual
Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief execuive of News Corp., during an interview in his office in New York on Thursday, May 3, 2007. (Photo: James Estrin / The New …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Murdoch Company Admitted Hacking US Company in 2009, and More
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How Not to Make Friends in the Greater Middle East
In the method, there is madness; in the comedy, nightmare; in the tragedy, farce. And despite everything, there’s still good news when it comes to what Americans …
Corporate America’s Sunshine Patriots
We went to Mount Vernon in Virginia a few weeks ago. It was the first time I'd been to George Washington's family estate since a whirlwind day tour of …