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Tea Party Betrayed Already?
I have been writing about the Tea Party, and asking what they will do if/when the DC Republicans betray them.. CAF has set up a page for the Tea …
Who Will Tell the Young People?
Republicans and Democrats can today agree on little, yet when Rahm Emanuel strategized that "a crisis is a terrible thing to waste", many Republicans must have heartily concurred. To …
Amid Burma Election, China-Built Dam Highlights Plight of Ethnic Minorities
Myitsone, Burma - A pro-junta party appears set to win Sunday's multiparty election in Burma (Myanmar) which was fraught with irregularities and omissions. For the country's ethnic minorities, the …
As Cholera Spreads, Heavy Rains Wreak Havoc in Camps
Leogane, Haiti - Standing on a raised piece of pavement across from the makeshift home where she has lived for the past 10 months, Violet Nicola threw up her …
The Deficit Commission Tsunami
During the mass unemployment of the Great Depression, Keynes once quipped that if we couldn't find any productive work that needed to be done, in order to reduce unemployment …
In Iraq, Press Freedom Takes a Step Backward
Last week, Iraqi security forces arrested two employees of Baghdadiya, a major television network, accused them of working with terrorists to shut down the station’s power. Security officials said …
E.J. Dionne, Jr. | Pelosi
Washington - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is calmly assessing the political cyclone that just two days earlier had routed her Democratic majority and will, at least temporarily, force her …
Froma Harrop | The Democrats Did Good
The Democrats did good. Not in the election — they did pretty miserably there. But they did good for the country. They led America back from the brink of …
David Sirota | From Uprising to Hostile Takeover … and Back Again
Death Panels. Witchcraft. Birthers. Islamophobes. Tea partiers. Obama text messages. Palin robo-calls. TV commercial after TV commercial after TV commercial. And now, at the end of this $4 billion …
GOP: No Compromise on Tax Cut for Wealthiest Taxpayers
Republican leaders in both the House and the Senate said Sunday there would be no compromise with Democrats on whether to extend Bush-era tax cuts for the nation's wealthiest …