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Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin Makes History by Signing Into Law Single-Payer Health Care
Last month, the Vermont Senate passed legislation, approved earlier by the House, that would establish a single payer health care system in the state. The legislation would make Vermont …
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All Eyes on the Storm
In 1954, E.B. White wrote a piece in The New Yorker about a hurricane hitting his part of Maine. The moment it left Boston, he notes in "The Eye …
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The Gingrich Style
It is hard to see why anyone was surprised by Newt Gingrich's self-ignited implosion in the earliest hours of his presidential candidacy. The career of the former House speaker …
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The Three Branches
People First … and Dogs, Too: A Case Study of Throwing Money and High Technology at a Military Problem
US Army Spc. Kory Wiels and his military working canine Cooper take a break after searching a house for weapons and homemade explosives in Arab Jabour, southern Baghdad, Iraq, …
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Young and Homeless: From the Streets to College (Part II)
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was produced with support from a New America Media reporting fellowship on children in poverty in California, and is part two of a three part …
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House GOP Goes After Tax Overpayments to Low-Income Families, Lets Tax-Dodging Corporations Off the Hook
In a hearing this morning, the House Ways and Means Committee examined “improper payments” made in the Earned Income Tax Credit program, which distributed $64 billion in refundable tax …
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Confronting the System Through Taxation
IRS 1040 forms at a post office, April 14, 2011. (Photo: Steven Depolo) Each year, unknown thousands of law-abiding American citizens refuse to pay taxes, driven by …
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What’s Left of the Ryan Plan?
Jennifer Steinhauer in the Times reports that some Republicans are running away from the Ryan Plan (you know, the one that changes Medicare from a health insurance plan to …
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Israel and the Palestinians Through the Looking Glass
President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, May 20, 2011. After a lengthy meeting with Netanyahu on …