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US Says Only Reason for Talks With Iran Is Enrichment Halt
Washington - The agreement on draft Security Council resolution sanctions against Iran has grabbed the headlines on the Barack Obama administration's response to Iran's nuclear swap proposal brokered by …
Robert Scheer | Who’s Afraid of Rand Paul?
Tuesday's election results were pretty good for progressives. The retirement of that windbag chameleon Sen. Arlen Specter is long overdue, and pro-labor forces were able to push Sen. Blanche …
E.J. Dionne, Jr. | A Smorgasbord, Not a Tea Party
Pittsburgh - Almost all the shibboleths of Washington conventional wisdom took a hit in Tuesday's voting. Yet advocates of a single national political narrative clung to the difficulties of …
Red State Road Trip 2: Where Have All the Mountains Gone? (Video – Part 13)
America's fossil fuel fetish continues - in spite of horrendous crimes against the earth. Travel into the belly of West Virginia, and get a front row seat in the …
How Do You Spell “Success”? A Look At “Internal Devaluation” in Greece, Latvia and Argentina
As of today the idea that Greece might be better off leaving the euro and renegotiating its debt is considered by many to be unthinkable. Instead, the country is …
Citing “Common Sense,” Tennessee Governor Vetoes “Guns In Bars” Bill
Yesterday, Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen (D) vetoed a bill passed by the state legislature that would allow the state’s 270,000 gun permit holders to carry their firearms into bars, …
ACLU Fights Restrictive, Unconstitutional Arizona Law in Court
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a coalition of civil rights groups are tackling Arizona's restrictive immigration law head-on; they filed a class action lawsuit Monday to challenge …
Weekly Pulse: Nun Excommunicated for Approving Lifesaving Abortion
A nun in Phoenix, Arizona was excommunicated for approving a lifesaving abortion. Sister Margaret McBride's role in the sacramental life of the Catholic Church came to an abrupt end …
How to Think Like a Feminist Economist
As a feminist economist I am constantly amazed—though I suppose I should be used to it by now—by the ways conventional analyses of economic matters completely ignore gender asymmetries.
News in Brief: Incumbents Fare Badly in Senate Primary and More …
Kentucky has chosen Rand Paul, the most prominent symbol of the Tea Party movement, as their candidate in the Republican Senate primary, reported The New York Times. Paul's win …