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The Tax Deal and the Apocalypse
The proponents of the tax deal that President Obama and the Republicans negotiated last week have gotten out their TARP and Iraq war hysterics. All the important people are …
News in Brief: Vote on Tax Deal Is Imminent, and More
Vote on Tax Deal is Imminent House majority leader Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) said Monday that the House will likely vote this week on Obama's tax package, according to Politico. …
Solutions: Making Government Work
Truthout's “Solutions: Making Government Work” editor and long-time researcher, author and government watchdog Dina Rasor. Click to visit the “Solutions: Making Government Work” archive. The Solutions …
Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
It is the climactic scene. Dorothy and her friends stand before the great Wizard of Oz. Toto wanders off and yanks back a curtain to reveal a man busy …
Where the Cancun Climate Conference Leaves Us
There is no reliable scientific assessment on just where we are vis-à-vis global climate destabilization. We can do better by acting on clear trends and options. Climate computer models …
Ezra Klein | Tax Cutters for Truth: Decoding a Strange Bipartisan Deal
In Washington last week the temperature dipped into the 20s, which is evidently the point when hell freezes over. President Obama reached an agreement with the Republican Senate leader, …
E.J. Dionne, Jr. | The Specter Haunting Obama
Washington - American decline is the specter haunting our politics. This could be President Obama's undoing — or it could provide him with the opportunity to revive his presidency. …
Spineless
My Journey Into Kivalina v. ExxonMobil et al
In 2008, a small Inupiat village in Alaska sued ExxonMobil and 23 other fossil fuel companies including Peabody Energy and BP for contributing to the destruction of their homeland, …
Domesticated Deities
About Messiahs Come to Redeem Our Country, Not Govern It (and Don’t Forget Marilyn and Elvis and Jackie O and Diana and Oprah and Brangelina and David Hasselhoff) …