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Selective Deficit Disorder

Watching the healthcare debate unfold these days is a little like watching scenes from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's… more

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Gay Boys in Oil City

The fight for GLBT rights in rural America is far from over.

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Killing Granny with the Laziness Bias

Progressives have been wrong--overly idealistic--about the power of communication. Many of us cling to the belief that if you… more

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Canada Tightens Border

After Mexican refugee claims nearly triple, Ottawa establishes new visa requirements.

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Snapshot: After the Coup

TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS—Supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya demonstrate on August 28, 2009. The United States pressured Honduran coup… more

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Capitalist Health Insurance for All

Here's what corporations know, but don't want you to find out: Private insurance is for suckers. Armies of healthcare… more

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Making the Illegal Legal

Israel’s Kafkaesque bureaucracy colonizes the occupied West Bank one settlement at a time.

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We’ve Seen This Trigger Before

After a summer of politics marked by esoteric phrases like "co-ops" and "insurance exchanges," the newest kernel of ubiquitous… more

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Democracy and Action

Afghanistan's historic August election was marred by widespread voting inconsistencies, despite efforts by U.S. and Afghan soldiers—and warlords—to keep the peace.

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When Renewable Is Not Sustainable

Ethanol and solar power deplete land and water resources.

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Einstein and Israel

The great scientist was both a Zionist and bi-nationalist—a fact too complex for the author of a new book to accept.

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Militarizing Latin America

The United States was founded as an "infant empire," in the words of George Washington. The conquest of the… more

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Foreclosure Crisis Built on Racial Injustice

The recession has resulted from, and contributed to, America's racial divide.

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In and Out of the Working Class

Radical economist and labor educator Michael Yates moves beyond the classroom to examine—with striking honesty—his own life.

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A Party Is Not a Movement

The difference between parties and movements is simple: Parties are loyal to their own power regardless of policy agenda;… more

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Israel’s Gadfly

Haaretz's Gideon Levy bucks Israeli media to report on Palestinian suffering.

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Will ‘Astroturf’ Groups Block Net Neutrality Reform?

Chris McGreal, a reporter for Britain's Guardian newspaper, took to the road last month to report on how Americans… more

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COIN Toss

Counterinsurgency failed before, but the United States is trying again.

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Live Free, Die Free

The Final Exit Network, a right-to-die organization, battles government euthanasia accusations.

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Why Kansas Matters

A new documentary details how politics and religion intersect in America.

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The Science Fiction of Military Marketing

I'm a video game geek, so as I sat through movie previews a few weeks ago, I was sure… more

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Taming Wall Street Cowboys

A new advocacy group heads to Capitol Hill to counter financial industry lobbyists hungry for deregulation.

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Ignoring Outrage, Obama Set to Expand Pentagon Presence in Colombia

Imagine that you live in a nice house in a tense neighborhood. Your neighbors haven't been too pleased with… more

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The ‘Post-Racial’ President

Barack Obama navigates a world where color still matters.

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Rethinking Venezuelan Politics

Ten years after Chavez's election, the movement he inspired remains divided over goals and strategies.

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Freedom from Fear

Those of us living in the Rocky Mountain region are steeped in America's famous gun culture--and we therefore know… more

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The Big Green Apple

It's easy being green in NYC.

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Dixie Media Versus Unions

A new book reveals how Southern media have strengthened the region's corporatocracy.

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Robert Novak Was a Liar

Washington's punditocracy is in mourning over the death of right-wing columnist Robert Novak, with many warm remembrances about his… more

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Aiding and Abetting War Crimes

The Israeli military tested new weapons in Gaza with U.S. support.

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Who’s Got the Power?

Progressives find themselves outmaneuvered on healthcare reform.

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Don’t You Forget About Him

Confidence is a strange and elusive thing. As a nation, we clearly have it in this post-Vietnam age of… more

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Snapshot: Prayer for Peace

KATHMANDU, NEPAL—On August 5, about 1,000 Tibetan monks, nuns and activists take part in a candle-light vigil at Boudhanath… more

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Fast Food, Slow Justice

Workers protest Yum! Brands firings.

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Healthcare’s 13 Tyrants

For those still clinging to quaint notions of the American ideal, these have been a faith-shaking 10 years. Just… more

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News Media ‘Acting Stupidly’

The most exasperating, if utterly predictable, lesson from the Henry Louis Gates Jr. contretemps was not about race. It… more

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Litterers or Life-Savers?

Government prosecutes activists who leave water for immigrants

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Dems, You Have the Power!

Last November, at one of the most perilous moments in U.S. history, Americans gave Barack Obama and the Democrats… more

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Slam of the Free, Poem of the Brave

Activism through spoken word, at the Brave New Voices Poetry Slam.

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The Me-First, Screw-Everyone-Else Crowd

I know I should be mortified by the lobbyist-organized mobs of angry Brooks Brothers mannequins who are now making… more

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Power of the People

In the long run, Iranian civil society will trump both official dogma and international influence.

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Mr. President, Help Save the News

In late July, former CBS news anchor Dan Rather sent murmurs through the journalism world when he called on… more

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The Poop on Population

Disposable diapers harm the environment, so here’s a modest proposal.

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Not Your Parents’ Labor Movement

Why the Republic sit-in failed to inspire other worker actions.

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Making War to Bring ‘Peace’

A debate is under way at the United Nations over a policy that may seem uncontroversial: an international framework… more

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We’re Public ... No, We’re Private

Charter school corporations take on public school teacher unions.

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Love and Revolution

The older I grow, the more I realize how lucky I am to have lived so long and been… more

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The Honduran Connection

The U.S. right, including Bush appointee Otto Reich, mobilizes to support the putsch.

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Health Industry, Right-Wingers Will Stop at Nothing to Derail Reform

Push finally came to shove in Washington this past week as the battle for healthcare escalated from scattered sniper… more

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Falling Through the Climate Gap

Poor Americans will suffer most from global warming.

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