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The Politics of Jobs vs. High Unemployment
Even new employment figures show the US economy's strongest job-creation performance in three years, the Obama White House knows that talking to Americans about jobs requires a delicate political …
Food Safety, Agriculture and Nutrition: Seven Predictions for 2010
Boulder, Colorado - The Organic Center, a leading research institute focused on the science of organic food and farming, has revealed its broad concern for the state of the …
British Columbia’s Coast in the Balance
In this part of the world the month of March is, to borrow a phrase from Franklin Delano Roosevelt, one that will live in infamy; it is the anniversary …
Citizens United Against Citizens United
Eighty-five percent of Democrats and 76 percent of Republicans tell pollsters when asked that they oppose the Supreme Court's decision in “Citizens United,” which lifted limits on corporate political …
Tea Baggers: Out of Work and on the Dole
This is too rich.
Brown vs. Democracy
With the California Financial Crisis at stake, the impartiality of the California attorney general has come under scrutiny. Proponents of the California Democracy Act, a ballot initiative that would …
Down With Political Prognostications
Political sages turn today's polling and past voter behavior into confident predictions about upcoming elections. That's their job. But fortune-tellers may do nearly as well, especially when the vote …
Taking a Stand to Keep Sitting Legal
San Francisco is poised to become the latest in a string of cities to adopt a law making it a crime to sit on the sidewalk. While it is …
French Regional Elections: Who Are the National Front (FN) Voters?
Marseilles: A Case Study The far-right party has regained turf thanks to the support of the right-leaning lower-middle classes that have constituted its base since the 1980s. From our …
The Social Networking Job
According to a recent ad posted on the Internet, the college student recipient of Pizza Hut's summer “Twinternship” would be charged with "attending advertising shoots, product meetings and other …