Opinion

Pakistan is calling

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Maybe you're one of millions of Americans who're down on their luck lost their jobs, had their homes foreclosed by the bank and are facing sizeable debt...

Choosing terrain for activism

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What if America had a parliamentary system? What if we got rid of the presidency and the Senate and turned the House of Representatives...

Shoving America back to the Great Recession

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The core economic problem we’re facing today is that both unemployment and underemployment are rampant, stifling any hope for real recovery and threatening the very survival of our essential middle class...

LETTERS

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Polis ‘Smart Track’ Position an Insult...

Toward a slaughter-free America

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I remember my first chicken harvest, as it was euphemistically called. It was 1999 and I was 12. In a video of the event, you...

Plenty of American jobs

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By gollies, America is still an exporting powerhouse. In fact, our corporate chieftains have made us number one in exporting America’s most precious goods — our jobs, factories, technologies and middle-class opportunities...

The ‘Beckinization’ of the far right

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Perhaps you thought that, surely, the far right wing in American politics couldn’t get any nuttier. If so, you clearly hadn’t factored in Glenn Beck...

World far right hijacks anti-vaccine movement

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“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity” – Martin Luther King, Jr. Congressman Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) says  the new...

Millionaire lawmakers can rise above their financial handicap

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Mark Twain spoke for me when he said: “I’m opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position...

OMG! The Roughnecks are coming!

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Yikes! The Roughnecks are coming! The first sighting occurred in February, when a band of them known as Crestone Peak Resources filed a Comprehensive Drilling...

Hotel giants trying to peddle plastic

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As everyone who travels a lot soon learns, when you stay in the hotels of the big chains, it’s easy to forget where you are, since they’re all alike, offering all the charm of Noplace, USA...

The first marathon

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When Michael Phelps won his 13th individual Olympic gold medal last Thursday night, he eclipsed a 2,168-year-old record for the largest number of individual...