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The Debt Deal
Dean Baker Predicts “a Really Bad Deal or No Deal” From Deficit “Super Committee” (Video)
President Barack Obama welcomed the deficit deal as “an important first step” and urged both parties to work together on a larger plan to cut the deficit. The deal …
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In Cuba, the Revolution Continues, Softly, as Times Change
On my first day in Cuba, in 1967, I waited in a bus queue that was really a conga line. Ahead of me were two large, funny females resplendent …
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Obama Says He’ll Really Fight for the People … Next Time
President Barack Obama talks with staff during a Domestic Policy Council meeting in the Oval Office, July 28, 2011. (Photo: Pete Souza / White House) By gollies, …
Tea Partying Like It’s 1954
In the early fifties, Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) used his position to smear establishment Americans as agents of the Soviet threat. (Photo: History In An Hour) The …
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Thomas Friedman Private Eye
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Good War, Bad War: An Interview With Adam Hochschild
Adam Hochschild is a National Book Award-nominated author and co-founder of Mother Jones. His work has brought alive the plight of history's victims, from the Belgian Congo to Stalin's …
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Isn’t It Time to Lower America’s War Ceiling?
US Army Col. Benjamin J. Corell, Task Force Red Bulls commander, takes cover as a UH-60 Black Hawk lands upon a mountaintop in Laghman province, Afghanistan, March 28, during …
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Arctic Scientist Who Exposed Climate Threat to Polar Bear Is Suspended
It was seen as one of the most distressing effects of climate change ever recorded: polar bears dying of exhaustion after being stranded between melting patches of Arctic sea …
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Dangerous Worlds: Teaching Film in Prison
When I first heard that my college had formed ties with a prison and that some of our teaching assistants were already offering courses to inmates, I leapt to …