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USDA: Schools Can Opt Not to Feed “Pink Slime” to Students
Washington - After a public uproar sparked by a Houston mom's online petition, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture on Thursday backed off the federal school lunch program's use of …
How We Cured “the Culture of Poverty,” Not Poverty Itself
A homeless man on the streets of Washington, DC. (Photo: Elvert Barnes / Flickr) It’s been exactly 50 years since Americans, or at least the non-poor among …
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Corporations Are People; Money Is Speech
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Slovakia Defies the Kochs and Cato
David Koch. (Photo: Gretchen Ertl / The New York Times) On Saturday, the tiny EU nation Slovakia held parliamentary elections, and the results surprised the “experts”: The …
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The Sensible Perspective
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Down and Out in the New Middletowns
A Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant worker grinds a metal support stand. (Photo: ACWA / Flickr) "When I graduated from Muncie Central High School, you could go …
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GOP Primary
The Santorum Strategy
Former senator Rick Santorum speaking at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC, October 7, 2011. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) The Santorum Strategy is not just about Santorum. …
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Sixty Thousand People Protest Gov. Scott Walker
Part of the crowd in attendance at the Reclaim Wisconsin rally at the State Capitol in Madison in support of recall efforts against Gov. Scott Walker, March 10, 2012. …
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Absent Compassionate Release, Austerity Helps Some Terminally Ill Prisoners Obtain Freedom
Entrance to the clinic at the Anna M. Kross Center on Rikers Island in Queens, New York. (Photo: Librado Romero / The New York Times) Patricia Wright …