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James Howard Kunstler | Out of Darkness
If the Devil created an anti-city, a place where people would feel least human, Atlanta would surely be that place — despite the prayerful babble of tongues emanating from …
We Need to Dump the Word “Illegal“
The owner of Mulligans, a watering hole popular with middle-aged white men in Cobb County, Georgia, regularly updates his marquee to comment on current events. Here is what's …
EPA Officials Weigh Sanctions Against BP’s US Operations
Officials at the Environmental Protection Agency are considering whether to bar BP from receiving government contracts, a move that would ultimately cost the company billions in revenue and could …
Coast Guard Chief: BP Must Stop Spill
Washington - The U.S. official leading the response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill said Sunday that only BP had the expertise to plug the gaping hole in …
Israel’s Ongoing War Against the Press
The recent arrest of an Israeli journalist who allegedly leaked materials to a reporter, and the gag order that followed, is just the latest in a long string of …
Robert Reich | The Challenge of Closing Tax Loopholes for Billionaires
Who could be opposed to closing a tax loophole that allows hedge-fund and private equity managers to treat their earnings as capital gains – and pay a rate of …
Veterans With Brain Injuries Still Struggle to Get Help
Washington - Improvised bombs rattled former Army Spc. Adam Pittman a dozen times in his three tours in Iraq, most severely when his Bradley fighting vehicle ran over one …
How to Shrink Corporate Tumors With Immunogentility
War budgets booming, drills and nukes reviving, health insurers hooting, agro-biz bloating, privacy invasions through the roof - any progressives or patriots out there not ulcerating yet?
Below the Radar: HUD Is Trying to Privatize and Mortgage Off All of America’s Public Housing
The Obama administration's move to the right is about to give conservatives a victory they could not have anticipated, even under Bush. HUD, under Obama, submitted legislation, called PETRA, …
E.J. Dionne Jr. | Casting Stones at Glass Houses
Washington - A fall from grace of the sort experienced recently by Indiana's Mark Souder typically brings smiles to the faces of liberals weary of moralistic religious types who …