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Metaphor and Health Care: On the Power to Make Metaphor Into Law
The argument is that if the government can force you to buy one product, it can force you to buy any product - even broccoli.
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GOP Fights for Control of Wisconsin Senate, Calling for Recount and Hyping Voter Fraud Allegations
as the Center for Media and Democracy predicted, Wisconsin Republicans are raising the spectre of
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Albert Einstein: Radical Citizen and Scientist
Time picked Einstein as its Person of the Century because he changed forever the way the rest of us saw the heavens and ourselves. But Einstein also represented science's …
Obama Campaign Attacks Romney’s Bain Outsourcing, But Support for Outsourcing is Bipartisan Corruption
The Obama campaign just released a campaign commercial talking about how Mitt Romney, while working at Bain Capital, oversaw the outsourcing of Americans jobs to China and Mexico. The …
Economic Update: The Economics of Pornography
Updates on end of weak
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The Quiet Extermination of Labor Rights From Human Rights
While progressives and labor are arguing, sometimes viciously, over laboru2019s current sorry state, one thing progressives havenu2019t done is serious self-examination on how and where this abandonment of labor …
From Agent Orange to “Kill Lists”: “Brilliant” Psy-Ops Become the News
On 28 May, President Obama launched a campaign to falsify the history of the war in Vietnam.
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Paul Krugman | Welcome to the 1930s
Financial powers, at home and abroad, are sinking us into the flawed economic ideals of the 1930s.
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Another View: The Myth of the Postal Service’s Finances
The health of the Postal Service lies largely in the hands of Congress, which has made a tremendous accounting strategy error. The pre-payment strategy could bankrupt the post office …
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Public Workers Face New Rash of Layoffs, Hurting Recovery
Government payrolls grew in the early part of the recovery, largely because of federal stimulus measures. But since its postrecession peak in April 2009 (not counting temporary Census hiring), …