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The Great Tax Cut Debate – Myths and Facts
In the lame-duck Congress agenda, perhaps the most substantive debate is over whether to continue tax breaks for the rich. President Obama and most Congressional Democrats want to extend …
What Landslide? A Closer Look at the Midterm Election Results
By now, everyone has heard of the conservative “tidal wave” that has overtaken Congress and most gubernatorial seats throughout the U.S. Indeed, anyone who has watched mainstream media coverage …
INS Targets Community Leaders, Not Criminals
When people the world over think of Arizona nowadays, they generally think of Governor Jan Brewer, Sheriff Joe Arpaio or state representative Russell Pearce – the poster children of …
Dancing With Dynamite: How Citizens Can Be More Than Merely Political Spectators
Two years ago, President Obama sailed into the White House on the winds of voters’ desire for widespread social change and their disgust with two wars and a massive …
Sharing Meals, Groceries and Anti-Authoritarianism Worldwide: Food Not Bombs Founder Keith McHenry
Created in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1980, Food Not Bombs (FNB) is the brainchild of Keith McHenry and seven other activists. “We came out of the Clamshell Alliance,” says McHenry, …
Much Needed Justice for Victims of Crime
For the past eight years, as a journalist, I have been deeply enmeshed in investigating and chronicling the winter 2004 unsolved vanishings of two young women. The two women, …
Let’s Build the New Economy
We need to build a new economy, one that promotes widespread prosperity while protecting us against ecological disaster. The problem is that the current economy has been structured explicitly …
At NATO Summit, Obama Pressures GOP on START Missile Treaty
Lisbon - President Obama may be temporarily out of the Washington political maelstrom, but he used his soapbox from the NATO summit Saturday to throw a punch at Republicans …
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Degree by Degree, Heat Waves Claim Lives, New Study Warns
Record-breaking—and dangerous—heat waves have lately become a staple of summer. In Moscow last July and August during a tragedy that grabbed global attention, average mortality doubled, to 700 people …