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New State Bank Bills Address Credit and Housing Crises
The long-awaited settlement between 49 state Attorneys General and the big five robo-signing banks is proving to be a major disappointment before it has even been signed, sealed and …
Stealing State Parks
RV parked at Mitchell Caverns, a California state park closed in 2011 that has suffered from vandalism since being shut down. (Photo: Mollivan Jon) Top politicos in …
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Corporate Margins and Profits are Increasing, But Workers’ Wages Aren’t
As we’ve been noting, corporate profits have made it back to their pre-recession heights (even if corporate tax revenue hasn’t followed suit). In fact, in 2011, corporate profits hit …
The Republican Brain: Why Even Educated Conservatives Deny Science – and Reality
I can still remember when I first realized how naïve I was in thinking—hoping—that laying out the “facts” would suffice to change politicized minds, and especially Republican ones. It …
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Flagellant
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Santorum Is a Social Conservative on Steroids, and That Troubles Some Voters
Even amid increased scrutiny, former Sen. Rick Santorum unapologetically wears his faith-fueled social conservatism on the heart of his trademark sweater vest. But the same steely resolve …
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Political Science
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On the President as Alien
Washington - They say that President Obama is a Muslim, but if he isn't, he's a secularist who is waging war on religion. On some days he's a Nazi, …
Immigrant Steel Workers March Against Unjust Firings
Pacific Steel workers march through Berkeley. (Photo: David Bacon) Berkeley, California - Two hundred immigrant workers, their wives, husbands, children and hundreds of supporters marched through downtown …
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The Emperor’s Messenger Has No Clothes: Belén Fernández Dresses Down Thomas Friedman
(Image: Verso) What's scary about Thomas Friedman is not his journalism, with its underinflated insights and twisted metaphors. Annoying as his second-rate thinking and third-rate writing may …