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Murder Incorporated: Guns, the NRA and the Politics of Violence on the Mexican Border
Sign on road just before main bridge into Mexico from Brownsville, Texas. (Photo: Mark Karlin)An Iron River of Guns Flows Across the Border A phalanx of US law enforcement …
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Murder Is Not an Anomaly in War
The war in Afghanistan—where the enemy is elusive and rarely seen, where the cultural and linguistic disconnect makes every trip outside the wire a visit to hostile territory, where …
With Larry Summers’ World Bank Bid in Trouble, Mexico Insists on Open Process
Larry Summers speaks at the Annual Meeting 2011 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 29, 2011. (Photo: Sebastian Derungs / World Economic Forum) Early …
Medicare Costs Too Much and They Better Not Cut It
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) joins other House Republicans to tell members of the media about their plan to reform the Congressional budget process in Washington, December 7, 2011. (Photo: …
Ever More and Ever Less: The Unstoppable Legacy of the War on Terror
By now, you’d think we’d be entering the end of the 9/11 era. One war over in the Greater Middle East, another hurtling disastrously to its end, and …
Bribing Israel
The bully came to Washington. The American president told him in no uncertain terms that the United States would not support a military attack on Iran at this moment. …
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Democratic Senators Issue Strong Warning About Use of the Patriot Act
Washington - For more than two years, a handful of Democrats on the Senate intelligence committee have warned that the government is secretly interpreting its surveillance powers under the …
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Texas Decision to Block Planned Parenthood Results in Loss of Federal Funds
The Obama administration notified Texas yesterday that it was officially stopping funds to the Texas Women’s Health Program because of the state’s decision to block abortion providers, including Planned …
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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 …