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Missing Dimensions for the G-20 in Seoul: Hamlet Without the Prince of Growth
Part of a Triple Crisis series leading up to the Nov. 11-12 G-20 meetings. Triple Crisis is pleased to welcome Professor Stephany Griffith-Jones, Director of the Financial Markets Program …
Temporary Extension of Bush-Era Tax Cuts Gaining Momentum
Washington - The Bush-era tax cuts that are set to expire on Dec. 31 are expected to be extended temporarily by the lameduck Congress, with a two-year extension the …
E. J. Dionne, Jr. | Do Only Conservative Victories Count?
Washington - In 2008, the largest number of voters in American history gave the Democrats their largest share of the presidential vote in 44 years and big majorities in …
The Things That Come Apart in War
Julian Assange's Wikileaks of many thousands of secret documents will go down in history as courageous and heroic – like Daniel Ellsberg's release of the Secret Pentagon Papers during …
Cheaper Than People
“Beep, beep!” I turned around in the hospital corridor and faced a kind of traveling file cabinet molded out of plastic. No one pushed it. Two lights flashed on …
Esther J. Cepeda | Nothing Happy About Obesity (2)
Chicago - Happy Meals in San Francisco are about to become a little less happy, and my smile has been super-sized. Not because I don't love Happy Meals. On …
White House Fiscal Commission Proposes Contentious Budget Cuts
Erskine Bowles and former Sen. Alan Simpson, co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, today released their draft proposal for reducing the country's budget deficit. The …
Robert Scheer | The Life and Times of Bush the Clueless
It takes a Harvard MBA to raze an economy. Perhaps that is too narrow a judgment given that a law degree from that institution or from Yale University seems …
Frank Schaeffer | How Republicans and Their Big Business Allies Duped Tens of Millions of Evangelicals into Voting for a Corpora
The bible-thumping white underclass have given a big boost to the corporate bottom line. Tens of millions of American voters got duped badly in the 2010 election. The bible-thumping …
New Shipping Lanes in Melting Arctic Will Accelerate Global Warming
But current technology can reduce ship pollution 90%, and a House committee is weighing law to reduce black carbon emissions. In the next few decades, a warming Arctic will …