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Lonely for Women Who Succeed
As you climb the ladder at the workplace, from the mid-management level to the senior leadership positions, you find fewer and fewer women. Little wonder then that Naz Khan …
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When You Don’t Need to Worry About Facts
Masquerading behind an invocation to “wisdom” in the title, David Brooks today finds his false equivalence (see here for another example) by comparing the two parties' approaches to Medicare: …
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South Sudan’s Gathering Storm
Displaced southern Sudanese people from the border town of Abyei take refuge under trees, in Turalei, southern Sudan, June 2, 2011. (Photo: Pete Muller / The New York Times) …
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Was Fukushima Too Big to Fail?
The Three Mile Island nuclear power station, south of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, June 19, 1998. (Photo: Keith Meyers / The New York Times) When George Bush started bailing …
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Pepsi, Pot, Porn … and Politics
News sources have recently reported on an interesting assortment of materials at Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad compound. Not only was bin Laden living far from any cave on the …
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Truthout Authors on Vocalo Radio
(Photo: Flowizm / Flickr) Junior Walk on Protecting Coal River Mountain Secret Surveillance: Truthout and the ACLU on What the Government Knows, or Wants to …
Vocalo Feature: Inside the Arizona Ethnic Studies Battle (Audio)
Elisa Meza and Mike Ludwig discuss the battle to preserve Mexican American Studies in Tucson public schools and how the ethnic studies debate tends to get misrepresented.
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Court Refuses to Grant Shield Protection to Blogger
(Photo: Garret Voight / Flickr) Bloggers who post messages on Internet forums are not protected by the New Jersey press shield law, which allows journalists to keep …
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Romney Leads, but Mormon Religion Could Become an Issue
Many Americans are uncomfortable with the Mormon religion — yet Mitt Romney, who is Mormon, is the clear front-runner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, according to a new …
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Pawlenty’s Economic Plan Cuts Taxes for Millionaires by 41 Percent
2012 presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty (R) yesterday laid out his economic “plan,” which is based around huge tax cuts that Pawlenty claims will spark a decade of 5 percent …