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Red State Road Trip 2: Where Have All the Mountains Gone? (Video – Part 13)
America's fossil fuel fetish continues - in spite of horrendous crimes against the earth. Travel into the belly of West Virginia, and get a front row seat in the …
How Do You Spell “Success”? A Look At “Internal Devaluation” in Greece, Latvia and Argentina
As of today the idea that Greece might be better off leaving the euro and renegotiating its debt is considered by many to be unthinkable. Instead, the country is …
Citing “Common Sense,” Tennessee Governor Vetoes “Guns In Bars” Bill
Yesterday, Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen (D) vetoed a bill passed by the state legislature that would allow the state’s 270,000 gun permit holders to carry their firearms into bars, …
ACLU Fights Restrictive, Unconstitutional Arizona Law in Court
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a coalition of civil rights groups are tackling Arizona's restrictive immigration law head-on; they filed a class action lawsuit Monday to challenge …
Weekly Pulse: Nun Excommunicated for Approving Lifesaving Abortion
A nun in Phoenix, Arizona was excommunicated for approving a lifesaving abortion. Sister Margaret McBride's role in the sacramental life of the Catholic Church came to an abrupt end …
How to Think Like a Feminist Economist
As a feminist economist I am constantly amazed—though I suppose I should be used to it by now—by the ways conventional analyses of economic matters completely ignore gender asymmetries.
News in Brief: Incumbents Fare Badly in Senate Primary and More …
Kentucky has chosen Rand Paul, the most prominent symbol of the Tea Party movement, as their candidate in the Republican Senate primary, reported The New York Times. Paul's win …
Representative Weiner Goes After Glenn Beck’s House of Gold
Throughout Glenn Beck's meteoric rise to become king of all right-wing media, a once-obscure Santa Monica peddler of gold coins called Goldline International has been along for the ride. …
Minding the Education Gap
The minority education gap, if not addressed, will have a huge impact on the U.S. economy in the future as good-paying jobs increasingly require college degrees. Americans aren't exactly …
How Bush’s DOJ Killed a Criminal Probe Into BP That Threatened to Net Top Officials
Mention the name of the corporation BP to Scott West and two words immediately come to mind: Beyond Prosecution. West was the special agent-in-charge at the Environmental Protection Agency's …