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[This essay appears in “Sports & Games,” the Summer 2010 issue of Lapham's Quarterly and is posted at TomDispatch.com with the kind permission of that magazine.]

The United States' choice to deal with its financial crisis by further weakening public and higher education is devastating.

Iran has offered to send its Revolutionary Guard to escort the next aid convoy to Gaza, reported the Guardian UK. This move could seriously escalate tensions in the region, …

Critics call out Congress for choosing the good will of doctors over the good health of patients, as the House proposes to lower funding for unemployment health benefits while …

In the fall of 2008, decades of finance-first, bankers-know-best economic policies coalesced to create one of the worst economic crises in history, one that the banks themselves could not …

The centerpiece of the first day of the America's Future Now! conference was expected to be a debate between representatives of two camps within the progressive movement: those who …

Jordan Flaherty is a journalist, an editor of Left Turn Magazine and a staffer with the Louisiana Justice Institute. He was the first writer to bring the story of …

Little Rock, Arkansas - In the past, incumbent Sen. Blanche Lincoln could have counted on Nancy Baker's vote. But on Monday, the Little Rock voter was on the city's …

China's Ming Dynasty built the Great Wall to thwart invasion. The French built their Maginot Line. Now Louisiana is gearing up to build offshore embankments of sand as bulwarks …

Friday’s job report was awful. For most new high school and college grads finding a job is harder than ever. Meanwhile, states are cutting summer jobs for disadvantaged young …