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According to Mike Huckabee, people with pre-existing conditions are like houses that have already burned down.
Grassroots Occupation: Chicago Parents Sit-In to Save Field House
Parents and students in Chicago occupying a school field house to protest its planned demolition have become a symbol of community resistance to blind budget cuts. More than 50 …
WikiLeaks Prepares Next Big Document Dump, While Media and Pentagon Continue Smear Campaign Against Its Founder
Attacks on Wikileaks are really an attack on free speech says its founder, Julian Assange. Scheduled for release in the next few weeks in concert with international and American …
News in Brief: GOP House Candidate Claims Muslims Want “Victory Mosque” Near Ground Zero, and More
GOP House Candidate Claims Muslims Want “Victory Mosque” Near Ground Zero
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Dodgy voting systems; Luddite judges; stressed out, arrogant election staff - small wonder vote counts are often wrong. Half a Loaf in the Maricopa County, Arizona, Election Trial
Right-Wing Road Trip: Will Bunch on Writing “The Backlash“
Not every liberal is eager to mingle with the angry populists who are the face of the anti-Obama backlash that has taken over the airwaves, the Internet, and the …
Price Spikes Raise Specter of Another Food Crisis
Washington - While global food prices declined for the first half of this year, they have spiked in recent months, according to a new World Bank publication, and this …
Robert Scheer | So Long, Summers
Finally! The announced departure of Lawrence Summers as the president's top economic adviser is welcome news. Harvard's loss in taking back its $586,996-a-year professor and “president emeritus,” who is …
Chuitna and the Curse of Coal
The Carrs grocery store in Anchorage is always bustling at 7am on a Saturday in August. SUVs and pickups with boats in tow crowd the parking lot, and bleary-eyed …
Linda Polman on “Afghaniscam”: Is US “Aid” Making Things Worse?
It is frequently acknowledged that US policy in Afghanistan is “failing.” But a sharper question is less frequently posed: are the actions of the US government making Afghans worse …