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How Republicans Win
Washington's conventional wisdom for explaining the intensity of Republican obstructionism toward President Barack Obama breaks down one of two ways: either it's a philosophical disagreement over the role of …

Agent Orange and Vietnam’s Forgotten Victims
Danang, Vietnam - At 46, each year of misery seems to have etched new wrinkles around Tran Thanh Dung's angry gaze. When he was child in the early 1970s, …

Will Legalized Marijuana Keep California in the Green?
While a legalized marijuana crop wouldn't solve all of California's agricultural woes, it might still keep the state in the green. The three-hour Northern California drive from San Francisco …

Penance Demands Action
Washington - At its holiest time of the year, the Roman Catholic Church is being forced to confront not only the central mystery of the faith — life after …

Why Are Beheadings Popular With Mexico’s Drug Gangs?
Cuernavaca, Mexico - The preferred form of cruelty by drug cartel henchmen is to capture enemies and behead them, a once-shocking act that has now become numbingly routine. Since …

Robert Reich | The Fed in Hot Water
The Fed has finally came clean. It now admits it bailed out Bear Stearns – taking on tens of billions of dollars of the bank's bad loans – in …

China’s Global Shopping Spree: Is the World’s Future Resource Map Tilting East?
Think of it as a tale of two countries. When it comes to procuring the resources that make industrial societies run, China is now the shopaholic of planet Earth, …

Orange Is the New Black: A Year in a Women’s Prison
Piper Kerman's memoir reveals how prison changed her life, and why warehousing people who commit crimes is such a waste of human potential.

Living in a Land of Rising Right-Wing Hate
Northeast Jefferson County east of Birmingham, Alabama, has long been known as a white-flight suburb and home to a crowd of racist rednecks, mostly good old boys and gals …

Why You Need to Understand Political Psychology
Are you concerned about the future of our country? Do you want to find ways to revitalize democracy and set about the important work of solving our problems? Have …