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China on the Verge
It has become increasingly common to suggest that on top of the European debacle and the sluggish recovery in the United States, China might be on the verge of …
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Occupy the Caucus: Dozens Arrested Challenging Corporate Influence in Iowa
Occupy protestors being arrested at Mitt Romney's headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa, December 28, 2011. (Photo: WEBN-TV) As voters in Iowa prepared to throw their support behind …
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Nineteen Million Jobs for US Workers
Highlights of Main Findings Starting with the financial collapse and Great Recession of 2008-09, the U.S. economy has been experiencing the most severe and protracted employment crisis …
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The Last Thing Medicare Needs Is More Privatization
Americans United for Change said it best in a recent e-mail: “You can’t put lipstick on a pig,” even if a Republican and Democrat are applying the red gloss …
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Triangulations of Christopher Hitchens
“Have you stopped vomiting yet, Christopher?” were the first words I ever said to Christopher Hitchens face-to-face. I’d bumped into him at some DC shindig, the type of thing …
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When Economics Gets Political
(Image: CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate) David Warsh finally says what someone needed to say: Friedrich Hayek is not an important figure in the …
The First Signs of an Indian Spring
A Kashmiri youth ties a scarf around his neck as he prepares to take part in a demonstration in Srinagar, India, on August 9, 2010. India has maintained hundreds …
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Seven Years After Sieges, Fallujah Struggles
Fallujah, Iraq - Fallujah still bears the scars of war; skeletons continue to be pulled from the rubble of bombed buildings, and, worse, rates of birth defects and childhood …
Super PACs, Occupy Iowa Protests and a Surging Rick Santorum: Iowa GOP Caucus Begins 2012 Race
Iowa is awash in millions of dollars of negative campaign ads funded by so-called Super PACs as voters head to their caucuses in the first real test of the …
Super PACs, Occupy Iowa Protests and a Surging Rick Santorum: Iowa GOP Caucus Begins 2012 Race (2)
Iowa is awash in millions of dollars of negative campaign ads funded by so-called Super PACs as voters head to their caucuses in the first real test of the …