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Understand the Right’s Attack on Social Security (2)
You hear over and over that Social Security is “in trouble” or that we “can't afford it.” This is as far from true as can be, and the idea …
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On Wisconsin
At the end of the night of Wisconsin’s first round of recall elections, now some two weeks ago, liberal heads were hanging low. Democrats needed to take back three …
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Pipeline Protests: Beyond the Usual Suspects
On Sunday, August 21, dozens of people continued the two-week long daily sit-in at the White House to protest the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. (Photo: Milan Ilnyckyj …
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Refugee Centers Breed Mental Illness
Melbourne - Concern is growing for the mental health of thousands of people locked up indefinitely in this country’s immigration detention system. In July, the office of …
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Drowning Government in a Hurricane (Why Wait for a Bathtub?)
“Shrinking government” in American political discourse has, for decades now, meant the following. We enlarge the government's budget through taxation and penalties on working people and through borrowing and …
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Three Charts to Email to Your Right-Wing Brother-In-Law
Federal spending dramatically increased under former president, George W. Bush and it has not increased much under President Obama. (Photo: Eric Draper / White House) Problem: Your …
Just Plane False: New York Times Columnist Attacks NLRB for Taking Action Over Boeing’s Alleged Union Busting
Nocera Myth: Boeing Did Not Engage In “Direct Payback” Against Striking Workers Nocera On Allegations Against Boeing: "It Is A Mind-Boggling Stretch To Describe Boeing's Strategy As …
Henry Giroux on Democracy Unsettled: From Critical Pedagogy to the War on Youth
“Theory needs to be rigorous and accessible, and it needs to address not merely the outer limits of disciplinary scholarship but also important social problems.”
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Many Death Sentences in US Overturned
Washington - In December 2008, former Army Pvt. Ronald Gray was on the brink of becoming the first military execution in almost 50 years. The rapist and …
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Mass Marketing Goes Platinum
In today's fast-moving world of consumer styles, when you're out, you're out. Not just out-of-style, but so far out that you no longer interest the big marketers. …