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America’s Wile E. Coyote Moment
Budget repair bill protesters in Madison, Wisconsin, on April 8th, 2011. (Photo: ra_hurd) The funniest thing about Wile E. Coyote is how far he has gone beyond …
Unequal Protection: The Boston Tea Party Revealed
The battle between the small businessmen of America and the huge multinational East India Company actually began in Pennsylvania, according to Hewes.
Fracking Insiders Score Big in New Gas Bill, But Americans Not Told the True Costs of Massive Drilling Plan
(Photo: Pete Souza / White House) Corporate insiders peddling the claim that drilling for methane gas will solve America's energy needs just scored big in Washington — …
Offshored Production, Dysfunctional Diplomacy and Outsourced Policy: A Three-Part Analysis on America’s Trade Decline
(Photo: Zak Greant / Flickr) American Manufacturing Slowly Rotting Away: How Industries Die I wrote in a previous article about why America's manufacturing sector, …
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One Hundred Years After the Triangle Fire, Disregard for Worker Safety Still the Rule
Miners listen as Rocky Moore, a mine safety inspector, not pictured, talks with them about mine safety precautions at Teco Energy's E3-1 coal mine in Hazard, Kentucky, on April …
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Looking for Mr. Goodwar?
It has been equal parts bemusing and bedeviling to watch as many liberals and moderates get on board with the latest episode of U.S. military adventurism. Equally fascinating has …
Militarized Conservatism and the End(s) of Higher Education
There can be little doubt that America has become a permanent warfare state.
Waking Up to a Nuclear Nightmare
Bravo Test over Enewetak, Marshall Islands, Operation Castle, March 1, 1954. Designed specifically to generate the largest possible cloud of fallout, the Bravo test was the first detonation of …
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America’s Most Segregated Cities Likely to Stay That Way
The recent report that America’s most segregated cities are just as — if not more — segregated than they were a couple of decades ago is hardly a revelation. …
The Dark Side of “Comprehensive Soldier Fitness“
Gen. George W. Casey, speaks with students from the Master Resilience Training School, one of the four components of the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness program, during a recent visit to …