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A Long Stay
More than 300,000 immigrants languish in detention centers around the country. Why are they there - and who is profiting from their imprisonment? Pedro Guzman Perez speaks to his …
Zach Carter | Four Bogus Attacks Bankers and Their Political Puppets Are Using to Attack Elizabeth Warren
No reformers question whether Elizabeth Warren is the best candidate to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She's a lauded scholar, an inspiring advocate who will draw talented …
Democrats Take on Supreme Court’s Giant Sell-Out of Our Democracy to Corporations
Democrats in Congress are fighting to undo, or at least mitigate, the potential damage wrought by the Supreme Court in its Citizens United decision, an example of right-wing judicial …
BP’s Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell Policy: The Well’s Corked, but Public and Government Are Left in the Dark
Prof. Bob Bea, of UC Berkeley, a civil engineer with years of expertise in marine oil drilling, says he is concerned that during the current crisis of BP’s blown-out …
The Real Story of Racism at the USDA
It's an astonishing development given the history of race relations at the USDA, an agency whose own Commission on Small Farms admitted in 1998 that "the history of discrimination …
BP, Obama and the Economics of Disaster
The unceasing dribble of bad news from the Gulf of Mexico has been running before our eyes for weeks now: dead plankton; hypoxic zones looming and worsening, the product …
Bank Tax, We Hardly Knew Ye
A Swedish idea that creates an insurance fund for preserving big banks - but not necessarily their bosses or shareholders - needs to return from the dead. In June, …
Look to Women to End Conflict in Kyrgyzstan
"Even now, I can't find the words to explain the kinds of horrors that are happening,” wrote Nurjan Tulegabylova with El Agartuu, a women’s organization based in Kyrgyzstan. “There …
Book Review: The Politics of Genocide
When President Obama released his National Security Strategy (NSS) in May he included an emphasis on the United States and the international community upholding the UN endorsed "Responsibility to …
News in Brief: Taliban Say They Are Winning the War in Afghanistan, and More
The Taliban has told the BBC that they are winning the war in Afghanistan and would refuse to negotiate with the coalition forces after US and British commanders suggested …