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Failure to Reach a “Grand Bargain” on Debt Makes 2012 Harder for Obama
President Barack Obama holds a town hall event at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md. on July 22, 2011. (Photo: Stephen Crowley / The New York Times) …
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After Long Wait, Same-Sex Couples Marry in New York
Cheryle Rudd, center, and Kitty Lambert are married by Mayor Paul Dyster in Niagara Falls, N.Y., just after midnight on Sunday, July 24, 2011. Hundreds of gay and lesbian …
Why We Should Worry About Right-Wing Terror Attacks Like Norway’s in the US
Oslo, Norway - July 23, 2011. (Photo: cyclopsr) The Norwegian police on Saturday charged a 32-year-old man, whom they identified as a Christian fundamentalist with right-wing connections, …
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Why Medicare is the Solution – Not the Problem
Bertha G. Milliard, 94, with nurse Ruth Collins, a nurse, during a home-care visit in Fort Fairfield, Maine, in November 2009. (Photo: Craig Dilger / The New York Times) …
Revolutionary Law in Chiapas, Mexico: A New Generation of Mayan Women Plan Their Future
Zapatista women demonstrating in Chiapas, Mexico. (Photo: orianomada)
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Rupert Murdoch vs. Edward R. Murrow and Izzy Stone
On Saturday morning, Rupert Murdoch apologized to the British public in a full-page advertisement that will run for three days in seven national newspapers stating: “We are …
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Third Prize: You’re Fired
In the movie Glengarry Glen Ross, Alec Baldwin walks into the office of underperforming salesmen and shakes them to their core. He's the guy from the head office, and …
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Film Chronicles American Jews Caught Between Two Worlds
(Photo: Jens Schott Knudsen / Flickr) “Between Two Worlds” Produced and directed by Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman Edited by Kenji Yamamoto …
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Put 15 Million Back to Work Fixing $2.2 Trillion in Infrastructure: Resurrect the Works Progress Administration
(Photo: Stephen Crowley / The New York Times) Perhaps all is not lost for the republic's economic future, even as its leaders let this nation hurtle toward …
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Belarus: Clapping Protests Challenge Police Restrictions
Prague - For the past nine weeks, Belarusians have been getting out in the hundreds into the main squares of big and small cities across the country on Wednesdays …