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Ronald Reagan, Enemy of the American Worker
The 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth is coming up in February, and before the inevitable gushing over what a wonderful leader he was begins, let me get in …
Reagan’s Solicitor General Charles Fried: “I Am Quite Sure That the Health Care Mandate Is Constitutional“
In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today on “The Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act,” President Ronald Reagan’s former Solicitor General — Harvard Law Professor Charles Fried — tore …
Dear John, Does Banning Abortion Trump Job Growth?
With millions of Americans out of work, House Republicans are focusing in on real priorities: decimating private abortion coverage and crippling public funding for abortion, as Jessica Arons reports …
Will Companies and Organizations Step Up to the Challenge in the New Green Economy?
Problem: Changing the US and other countries in the world to create a green-based economy, while phasing out fossil fuels. Solution: It will take more than government programs and …
News in Brief: Senate to Vote on Health Care Repeal as Experts Eye Supreme Court, and More
Senate to Vote on Health Care Repeal as Experts Eye Supreme Court
Marjorie Cohn | US Chickens Come Home to Roost in Egypt
Barack Obama, like his predecessors, has supported Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to the tune of $1.3 billion annually, mostly in military aid. In return, Egypt minds US interests in …
Saad’s Revolution
A largely unheralded hero of the Egyptian revolution is a mild-mannered academic who endured imprisonment and then exile for daring to criticize the Mubarak family’s increasingly dynastic ambitions.
Why the Army Won’t Shoot Protesters
Cairo - Khalid Ibrahim Al-Laisi has been a soldier in the Egyptian army for 20 years. Today, far from shooting protesters, he says the time has come "to revolt …
Robert Reich | Stocks Up, Houses Down and What This Means for Most Americans
Put your ear to the ground and you can almost hear the bulls stampeding. The Dow closed above 12,000 Tuesday for the first time since June 2008. The Dow …
Yemen’s Leader Pledges Not to Seek Re-Election
Sana, Yemen - President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen said Wednesday that he would not run for re-election when his term ends in 2013. The announcement was a stunning …