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The Scorched-Earth Politics of America’s Four Fundamentalisms
Governance is in the hands of corporate power and the US increasingly exhibits the traits of a failed state.
Self-Dealing in Government: No. 1 Impediment to Reform
The public hears about the deluge of corrupting money in the system, but they need individual examples to understand.
“Losing” the World: American Decline in Perspective
(Photo: abbyladybug) Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated — Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example. Others are ignored, and we can …
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Romney’s Overriding Ambition
Washington - Criticism of Mitt Romney for lacking a coherent message is grossly unfair. He has been forthright, consistent and even eloquent in pressing home his campaign's central theme: …
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Romney Bowl
Wisconsin Recall Petition Delivery
Delegates from counties throughout Wisconsin marched from the Monona Terrace to the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board (GAB) on Tuesday. They presented the GAB with a few representative boxes of …
“The High Comedy of Alternate Reality”; or, “Ah … Iowa”
Please don't expect me to take the 2012 GOP Iowa caucus seriously.
The Rain and the Reckoning
Dewey Square, the patch of earth that Occupy Boston protesters called home from September to December, is empty now.
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Surviving the Second Gilded Age
We refuse to support the politicians, think tanks, media and anti-public intellectuals who are pushing to create a Secon