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Part One: FEMA and Disaster – a Look at What Worked and What Didn’t From a FEMA Insider
An Urban Search and Rescue Team bring victims of the flood waters of New Orleans to dry land by boat, August 30, 2005. (Photo: Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA ) …
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“Until the Day I Die”: Gerta Louisama on Haitian Women Winning Their Rights
Gerta Louisama is a member of the Executive Committee and the National Women's Committee of Tèt Kole Ti Peyizan Ayisyen, Heads Together Small Producers of Haiti, Haiti's largest and …
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Who Gains From Debt Deal? The Pentagon, for One
The last-minute deal that Congress is considering to raise the federal debt limit probably will mean trillions of dollars in government spending reductions for most agencies. But one department …
Tea Partying Like It’s 1954
In the early fifties, Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) used his position to smear establishment Americans as agents of the Soviet threat. (Photo: History In An Hour) The …
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In Arab World First, Mubarak Stands Trial in Egypt
An ailing Hosni Mubarak, who served longer than any ruler of modern Egypt until he was overthrown in a revolution in February, was rolled into a courtroom in a …
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Syria Storms Center of Rebellious City (2)
With heavy shelling, Syrian tanks stormed through the restive city of Hama on Wednesday, occupying a central square that had witnessed the largest protests against the rule of President …
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Does Debt Deal Put Mortgage-Interest Deduction in Play?
Washington - Just as Social Security and Medicare benefits were dangled above the shredder in the debt ceiling debate, another of Washington's sacred cows could end up on the …
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The Hostage Crisis Continues: Why Obama Can’t Pivot to Jobs and Growth
With the hostage crisis behind him, the President is now ready to talk about the nation’s real problem. Nine paragraphs into his remarks today announcing the nation …
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Thomas Friedman Private Eye
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Senate Passes, Obama Signs Debt Ceiling Bill
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) speaks with the press about the debt ceiling deal on Capitol Hill in Washington, Aug. 1, 2011. The bill passed today 74 …