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Can You Understand the Republican Brain?
Scientific American lauds author Chris Mooney "as one if the few journalists in the country who specialize in the now dangerous intersection of science and politics." Having interviewed Mooney …
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The Seeds of a Quiet Economic Revolution: A Review of Gar Alperovitz’s “America Beyond Capitalism“
It is not news that Americans overwhelming disapprove of the job Congress is doing. And likely, it's not surprising that two-thirds of Americans told a London-based firm, Absolute Strategy …
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Reconstructing America’s Economic System Is Within Reach
At the center of the traditional progressive theory is the hope that the political and economic power of the large corporation can be contained economically and politically through political …
Maddow Writes on America’s Love Affair With War
Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent …
Truthout Talks With Thom Hartmann About His Legacy as an Author
Thom Hartmann: I've been writing since I was 12 years old. When I left my parents' home when I was 16, I'd wallpapered my bedroom with 56 rejection slips, …
The United States Has Been Enabling Torture for Decades
(Image: Troy Page; Adapted: mike.benedetti, Caleb Kimbrough) Marjorie Cohn – a law professor and past president of the National Lawyer's Guild – has assembled a compelling interdisciplinary …
Tim Wise on White Resentment in a Multiracial Society
(Photo: Eric Allix Rogers / Flickr) Tim Wise: Yes, of course, although there is also a bit of a uniquely "American" twist. On the one hand, there …
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Is the Era of White Privilege Nearing an End in the US?
(Image: City Lights Publishers) I have to confess to a longstanding fantasy, the fulfillment of which I resist, partly because of its impracticality, but also (and mostly) …
Revealed: Corporation-Courting Imperialist Thomas Friedman
Verso Books recently inaugurated a series it calls "Counterblasts," which "aims to revive the tradition of polemical writing inaugurated by Puritan and leveller pamphleteers in the seventeenth century." Its …
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The Emperor’s Messenger Has No Clothes: Belén Fernández Dresses Down Thomas Friedman
(Image: Verso) What's scary about Thomas Friedman is not his journalism, with its underinflated insights and twisted metaphors. Annoying as his second-rate thinking and third-rate writing may …