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Center for Reproductive Rights Takes FDA Back to Court Over Morning-After Pill
Says Obama FDA is Still Ignoring Science and Playing Games with Women's Health Like Bush FDA
Robert Scheer | The Man Who Shattered Our Economy
Rejoice, the housing market is back. Sandy Weill just picked up a humdinger of a wine vineyard estate in Sonoma, Calif., for a record $31 million, so the foreclosure …
Jim Hightower | Corporate Flimflammers in Our Communities and Congress
The signature phrase of America's booming good food movement has been expanded from "organic" to "local and sustainable." Good! The phrase suggests great quality, strong environmental stewardship and a …
Ruth Marcus | Stewardship by Illusion
Washington - It was, or so I thought, a dandy column idea: an imaginary, missing chapter of George W. Bush's "Decision Points," in which the former president would admit …
Kandahar: The Latest Casualty of an Invisible War
Not only is it unclear that the U.S. and NATO are winning their war in Afghanistan, the lack of support for their effort by the Afghanistan president himself has …
The Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign: Building a Movement From the Ground Up
Long before the recent revelations of widespread foreclosure fraud, a group of community organizers in Chicago was taking on one of the nation's most pressing issues from the grassroots …
This Modern World: Raising the Social Security Age
Thom Hartmann | Bring My Job Home!
By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he [the entrepreneur] intends only his own security, and by directing that industry in such a manner as …
Twenty-First Century Blowback?
The construction projects are sprouting like mushrooms: walled complexes, high-strength weapons vaults, and underground bunkers with command and control capacities — and they're being planned and funded by a …
Dean Baker: The Deficit Is the Wrong Problem
“It's the wrong answer to not a problem," says Dean Baker of the report out last week from the leaders of Obama's deficit commission, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson. …