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Higher Taxes on the Working Poor and Middle Class? Why Conservatives Have Lost Their Minds, And the Public
Over the weekend, NYTimes.com featured a Bloggingheads.tv discussion I had with Kristen Soltis of the Independent Women's Forum about the conservative response to the “We Are The 99%” mantra …
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Latinos Said to Bear Weight of a Deportation Program
A deportation program that is central to the Obama administration’s immigration enforcement strategy has led disproportionately to the removal of Latino immigrants and to arrests by immigration authorities of …
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Activists in New York Target “Governor 1 Percent”: Cuomo Under Fire for Refusing to Extend Millionaire’s Tax
“Where is Cuomo? Protecting the 1 percent!” That was the chant outside the Skylight SoHo according to Democracy Now! reporter Ryan Devereaux, who accompanied a group of …
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Framing Occupy Wall Street
Protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement celebrate one month of occupying Zuccotti Park in New York, on October 17, 2011. (Photo: Robert Stolarik / The New York Times) …
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Seventy Thousand Greek Workers Launch New Anti-Austerity Strike
Athens - Tens of thousands of Greek workers walked off the job on Wednesday at the start of a two-day general strike to protest a new round austerity measures …
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It’s Time to Compensate the Victims: Looking Back at Vietnam and Agent Orange
A mother and her child who was affected by his parent's exposure to the chemical, Agent Orange. (Photo: Brendan Wilcox) Fifty years ago, while President Kennedy deliberated …
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More Bathtubs
Last week I criticized David Brooks for not understanding the difference between stocks and flows (that is, between your paycheck and your bank balance). (Paul Krugman instead criticized the …
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Crunch Time for Occupy Wall Street
Remembering the agonies I went through when the tanks moved in on Tiananmen Square in June, 1989, I was relieved that most (I wish it were all) of the …
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Lost Letter: How Government Fails to Deliver on Worker Safety
By late 2009, workplace safety regulators had serious concerns about large mail processing centers across the country. Ongoing inspections suggested a widespread, recurring risk of electric shocks or burns …
Yana Kunichoff Discusses Truthout’s Recent Collaboration With the ACLU on Surveillance in the “Homeland“
Listen to Truthout's Assistant Editor, Yana Kunichoff discuss our latest collaboration with the ACLU, “Ten Years Later: Surveillance in the ‘Homeland’.”