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What America Would Look Like if Libertarians Got Their Way
What if you cut all benefits? What if all of public life were a giant competition? What libertarianism would look like in real life.
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The GOP’s Growing Divide
The Republican Party, which should have the wind at its back, enters 2014 in disarray bordering on open warfare.
The Affordable Care Act is Not Socialism
How did it happen that we are allowing the conservatives to label The Affordable Care Act socialized medicine and/or socialism?
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A Ploy to Dilute the Democratic Party’s Message
While Third Way wears a Democratic mask, it pushes for policies that are Wall Street fantasies, including gutting and privatizing Social Security.
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Why Are Republicans Socking It to the Unemployed?
If Republicans really want Americans to get back to work, then it's time for them to support the policies and legislation that will put them back to work.
Ralph Nader: McCarthyism Made Us Veer Away From a Systemic Doctrine for Change
On Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay, Ralph Nader says McCarthy's reign of terror made people seek more empirical change, we went after auto companies - no “ism” there.
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The Twilight of Leadership
We donu2019t have many Nelson Mandelas left, and we don't really like the more pedestrian politicians that we've been saddled with.
Why Libertarianism Is Immoral
While holding onto their GOP electorate, they claim to fight for the libertarian agenda, arguing for smaller government, removing the government from everyone's personal lives, etc.
You Don’t Even Know You’re a Slave
Most of us are enslaved in our neo-feudal system, but most don't even know it.
What Iranians Think
What do Iranians want from their newly elected government and how will this deal play at home?