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Byron Dorgan’s Contracting Fraud Crusade

The North Dakota senator has made investigating contractor corruption his mission, but will he succeed in creating a congressional committee devoted to it?

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Sam’s Club Politics

On a recent episode of the NBC comedy "30 Rock," the cutthroat corporate executive Jack Donaghy, played by… more

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The Lamont Lesson

When you hear folks say that history inevitably repeats itself, you probably figure they are referring to the… more

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Mexico’s Ghost Towns

The other side of the immigration debate

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Tilting at Media Windmills?

In April, the news media began a predictable turn to "image scandals" in the presidential campaign. And then… more

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A Kinder, Gentler Torture

While staying at his in-law's village in Afghanistan in December 2001, Abdul Hamid Al-Ghizzawi, my client at Guantánamo,… more

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Why Democrats Won’t Stop the War

The nationwide opposition to the Iraq War is based on a host of populist impulses. Some people hate… more

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The American Left: McGovern, Obama, and ‘transformative’ change

One of the most common complaints among progressives is that we don't have a vision of how to… more

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Main Street Squeeze

Pick your metaphor for the current state of American workers: Are they squeezed? Caught? Crunched? Three new books… more

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A Different Kind of Democracy

The never-ending presidential campaign is enough to overload anyone's senses. The themes and messages are mind-numbingly discombobulated --… more

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By the Sewers of Babylon

Oh, the humanity! Oh, the gastronomy! Europe and the United States are suffering a tragic shortage of buffalo… more

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Piling it High

The sewage sludge industry meets the light of day

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Fox News’ Criminal Pundits

The sensationalist media inquest into Sen. Barack Obama's associations has cheapened the national debate. It has also exposed… more

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Atheism’s Unholy Trinity

Last spring, Chris Hedges, the Pulitzer Prize-winning former foreign correspondent for the New York Times, flew to California… more

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Supreme Court OKs Racial Profiling

Either racial profiling is odious and unconstitutional, with personal and social consequences for communities of color -- or… more

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California Rules!

A Defeat for Right-Wing Activism On and Off the Bench

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The Cho Show

Margaret Cho knows how brutal Hollywood can be. In 2000, in her critically acclaimed one-woman comedy show, "I'm… more

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Toward A New Washington Consensus

You've probably heard that John McCain once said, "I know a lot less about economics than I do… more

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New Jewish Lobby Counters Neocons

On April 15, after 18 months of planning, a new progressive Jewish lobby called J Street was launched… more

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Obama Not Feelin’ the Love from Smiley

Now that Sen. Barack Obama has taken care of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Tavis Smiley appears to be… more

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The Kosovo Dilemma

In 1990, Yugoslavia was a country comprising six republics. By the beginning of 2008, it had splintered into… more

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Winning the White Working Class

Tom Lewandowski, a former General Electric factory worker, heads the central labor union council in this northeastern Indiana… more

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Errol Morris’ Myopia

Filmmaker Errol Morris has grown famous and revered as the pioneer of what could be called interrogatory cinema… more

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Axle of Evil

Drastic wage cuts drive UAW members to picket American Axle & Manufacturing

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The Vendetta Against Black Men

Despite the rise of Sen. Barack Obama, black men remain in the bull's-eye of governmental repression and police… more

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The Push to Privatize PEMEX

Halliburton is licking its chops at the prospect of Mexico's state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos going private. Petróleos Mexicanos, or… more

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Collapse of the Fourth Estate

In March, on the five-year anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the nation's major news outlets reflected… more

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Rap the Casbah

For more than a generation, hip-hop has drawn kids from neighborhoods around the world into the musical intersection… more

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Acknowledging the Race Chasm

When it comes to race, American politics is as polarized as a red and blue election map. On… more

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U.S. Media Trivializes Campaign 2008

Every four years, during U.S. presidential elections, the same thing happens, except it’s always a little bit different.… more

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Louisville Schools Class-ify Brown

Last June, the eulogizing came quickly after the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to strike down the race-based integration… more

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A Boon for T. Boone

T Boone Pickens, once known as a corporate raider, is now a billionaire hedge fund investor -- and… more

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Hillary for Class President

Chocolate Chip Cookies and Her Eighth Grade Campaign

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The Plague of Potomac Fever

If any publication was going to document the sickness known as Potomac Fever, it was going to be… more

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