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Debt of Gratitude: Less Earning, More Learning
I’d like to share a story, a personal story, a common story, an American story. For nearly two decades, I have carried the burden of a crushing student loan …
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Neither Stimulus Nor Austerity Will Solve This Crisis: A Third Way?
(Photo: b.e.n. / Flickr) Few subjects have so bitterly divided our insecure times than the double-edged saber of stimulus vs. austerity. Consensus over which course will lift …
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Three GOP Candidates’ Plans Would Increase Debt, Study Says
Washington - President Barack Obama is roundly criticized by Republicans for running up the nation's debt. But if a Republican takes the White House, the debt will keep climbing …
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US Agencies See No Move by Iran to Build a Bomb
Washington - Even as the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said in a new report Friday that Iran had accelerated its uranium enrichment program, American intelligence analysts continue to believe …
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Guantanamo Detainees Who Cooperate With Government Could Be Removed From Indefinite Detention List
Detainees in Camp 4, one of the camps inside Camp Delta, at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on June 8, 2010. (Photo: Richard Perry/The New York Times) Prosecutors in …
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Cooperatives Over Corporations
(Photo: Tara Herberger / Flickr) We're being told by today's High Priests of Conventional Wisdom that everyone and everything in our economic cosmos necessarily revolves around one dazzling …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Dropping BRICs on the International Monetary Fund, and More
Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
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Santorum Is a Social Conservative on Steroids, and That Troubles Some Voters
Even amid increased scrutiny, former Sen. Rick Santorum unapologetically wears his faith-fueled social conservatism on the heart of his trademark sweater vest. But the same steely resolve …
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