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Bill Moyers and Jim Hightower on the Rise of Populism
Bill Moyers and Jim Hightower discuss the champions of grassroots action fighting against the moneyed interests trying to buy and control government.
How DC’s Political Intelligence Biz Made Fat Cats Fatter
Mr. Cantor has been Wall Street's go-to guy on issues big and small.
Andrew Bacevich: Chaos in Iraq
While armchair warriors in Washington cry “back to Iraq,” former combat veteran and military historian Andrew Bacevich says no way.
What We Can Learn From Lawrence of Arabia
As fears grow of a widening war across the Middle East, fed by reports that ISIS envisions a region-wide, all controlling theocracy, we found ourselves talking about another war: …
Bill Moyers: The Folly of Attacking Iraq
Should we really be listening to Washington's “armchair warriors” who were wrong before, during and after the Iraq war - and never admitted their wrongdoing? Bill has some ideas.
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Pundits and Partisans Are Up to Old Tricks in Iraq
There was no al Qaeda-Iraq connection until the war; our invasion made it so. We have known this for nearly a decade, well before the murderous ISIS even appeared.
The World Cup and “Brazil’s Dance With the Devil”
Just a year ago, there were mass protests in Brazil - on one day alone, more than a million demonstrators hit the streets - speaking out against the billions …
Iraq Is Coming Apart at the Seams – Here’s Our Essential Reader
Itu2019s often the case that the more complex a situation is in the real world, the sillier our political discourse around it here at home is, and this conflict …
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Financial Reform Rising
The story so far on financial reform is not a pleasant one. Fortunately there is now some movement in the right direction.
Bill Moyers: Too Big to Fail and Getting Bigger
In Washington, DC, a bipartisan effort is underway to chip away at the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law, which is supposed to prevent the type of economic meltdown that …