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Bernie Sanders Wants NBC-Comcast Merger Stopped Following Olbermann Suspension
After MSNBC suspended Keith Olbermann from "Countdown" for making contributions to political campaigns, activists and pundits on both sides of the aisle used the occasion to speak out on …
Few Big Fish Land in Immigration Dragnet
New York - Putting local police on the "front lines" of immigration enforcement is distracting federal agencies from their objectives by turning over people with no criminal history, or …
Bush Pens True Crime Book, No Justice for CIA Destruction of 92 Torture Tapes: Why George W. Should Still Worry
In his memoir (which some wise people have already moved in bookstores to the CRIME section) George W. Bush admitted that he authorized that detainees be waterboarded, tortured, a …
For Lenders, the Name of the Game Is Extend and Pretend
I’m finding it difficult to write about the recent foreclosure mess in the United States. Amid the revelations in October that so many mortgage lenders might have been sloppy …
News in Brief: Pentagon Study Shows Repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Is Not Dangerous, and More
Pentagon Study Shows Repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Is Not Dangerous
Stanley Aronowitz: “An Immense Malaise Torments American Society“
Interview with distinguished professor of sociology Stanley Aronowitz at the City University of New York. He evokes the reasons for Barack Obama's Democrats in the midterm elections. Bruno …
Joe Conason | A Note on Health Care Reform
Overstating the importance of a midterm election is understandably tempting for politicians and pundits, especially when the partisan turnover reaches historic proportions, as it indisputably did on Nov. 2. …
Obama in Asia: Meeting American Decline Face to Face
Blocked from major new domestic initiatives by a Republican victory in the midterm elections, President Barack Obama promptly lit out for Asia, a far more promising arena. That continent, …
Veterans Day 2010: Honor the Consciences of Our Veterans
The war in Afghanistan is now in its tenth year, with no end in sight. Al Qaida isn't in Afghanistan anymore, and the war doesn't meet the criteria for …