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Rick Wolff | Economic Crisis and Tax Injustice
The Associated Press's Robin Hindery reported on October 29, 2010 that the AP had found a remarkable fact: communities across the US have been raising their local property taxes. …
Stephen Pitt | An Exhausted Christine O’Donnell Sleeps After Halloween
WikiLessons: War Is a Joke, but It Isn’t Funny
By now you've probably seen (or at least heard about) the recent WikiLeaks logs on Iraq (and previously on Afghanistan), which reveal a pattern of widespread brutality and official …
The New American Isolationism: The Cost of Turning Away From War’s Horrific Realities
A new isolationism is metastasizing in the American body politic. At its heart lies not an urge to avoid war, but an urge to avoid contemplating the costs and …
GOP Leaders Concede Senate May Be Out of Reach
Washington - Top Republicans conceded Sunday that they could fall short of winning control of the Senate in Tuesday's congressional elections. With the Republican wave in danger of falling …
The Phantom Left
The American left is a phantom. It is conjured up by the right wing to tag Barack Obama as a socialist and used by the liberal class to justify …
E.J. Dionne, Jr. | No Final Victories
Bristol, Pa. - It was just four years ago that the Democratic Party began its comeback in what now seems like another country. The economic collapse was not in …
“Tell Them to Come to Afghanistan and Make Friends”: Bamiyan Diaries, Day Four
Again and again in this isolated Afghan province, when visiting Afghan people in their homes or when talking with members of the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers (AYPV), we have …
Our Ignorance and Our Interests: Why We Need to Learn More, Not Less, about Islam and the Arab World
When the Texas Board of Education (TSBE) passed a resolution late last month decrying the “pro-Islamic/anti-Christian bias [that] has tainted … Texas Social Studies textbooks,” indicating that they would …
Refugee Camps May Model Future Society
While it should never be the case that a high percentage of the Haitian population remains living in refugee camps ten months after the earthquake, still camp residents have …