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Froma Harrop | Whipping Health Care Reform, in a Nice Way
Following the attack against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and bystanders, Republicans put off action to scuttle the Democrats' health care reforms. The GOP House leadership is now back, determined to …
Wars Are Not Fought on Battlefields
The notion of a battlefield has been expanded, to put it mildly.
The Myth of “American Exceptionalism” Implodes
One aspect of “American exceptionalism” was always economic. US workers, so the story went, enjoyed a rising level of real wages that afforded their families a rising standard of …
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The F Word: Cutting Taxes Is Breaking the Economy (Video)
More GRITtv It scored the cover of the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Paul Krugman's feature, CAN EUROPE BE SAVED? And a quick read may have left American readers …
WikiLeaks Cables Show Obama Sent More Troops to Afghanistan Despite Warnings
Secret diplomatic cables recently released by WikiLeaks show that the Obama administration increased the United States' military presence in Afghanistan despite warnings that the surge could make 2010 the …
Tom Engelhardt | In the Crosshairs: Tucson – Kabul
“Slowly a humped shape rose out of the pit, and the ghost of a beam of light seemed to flicker out from it. Forthwith flashes of actual flame, a …
Coleen Rowley | Reversing the Erosion of Civil Liberties
As many Americans embraced the illusion of “perfect security” – even at the cost of their freedoms – government agencies stepped in with ambitious “counterterrorism” programs that soon were …
A Time for Action – Not Servility
While Washington pundits are talking up a new civility, many progressives are bracing for the old servility — a bipartisanship that is servile to a corporate elite that is …
News in Brief: DC Supreme Court Rejects Gay Marriage Appeal, and More
DC Supreme Court Rejects Gay Marriage Appeal