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Will Congress Turn Its Back on Jobless Americans?
Will Congress Turn Its Back on Jobless Americans?
A minority in the House of Representatives has blocked reauthorization of federal unemployment benefits. If Congress doesn't act quickly, the long-term unemployed will start dropping from the benefits rolls.
The Hammer Gets Hammered: A Life Sentence for Tom DeLay?
The Hammer Gets Hammered: A Life Sentence for Tom DeLay?
The former majority leader's conviction serves as a reminder of just how crooked Congress was during the Bush years.
Fail and Grow Rich on Wall Street
Fail and Grow Rich on Wall Street
Welcome to the brave new world of post-bailout capitalism.
A Response to Glenn Greenwald
A Response to Glenn Greenwald
A Nation article investigating the Astroturf roots of the TSA scandal elicited a fierce rebuttal from Glenn Greenwald of Salon. The authors reply.
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For William James, all our certitudes depend on the pretense that there are no radical mysteries underlying them.
Drollery, mordancy, tenderness and soul talk: Saul Bellow's letters are a Saul Bellow novel!
Susie Linfield's The Cruel Radiance is a demanding and flawed attempt to regard the pain of others through photographs.
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What's so bad about big-ticket philanthropy? Nothing—except that it lets the wealthy decide how to spend money that would be the Treasury's.
The pope has said both men and women can use condoms to protect themselves from HIV. Can he now say that women can use them to protect themselves from the dangers of pregnancy?
As American life becomes more and more like reality television, could product placement of a candidate become the surest route to the presidency?
Are Astroturf activists at the heart of the revolt against the TSA? And who benefits from the scandal?
Instead of cutting benefits for the poor, how about taxing the total household wealth of the rich?
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