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Chinese government pays for trip by aides to Rubio, Ros-Lehtinen
The Tampa Bay Times reports this evening that two, top staff members for Senator Marco Rubio (FL) and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL-27) took junkets to China that were financed by…
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The fun of Empire: fighting on all sides of a war in Syria
The U.S. “is sharing intelligence about jihadist deployments with Damascus through Iraqi and Russian channels,” the Agence France-Presse reports today, citing one source as saying: ”The…
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Asking for justice
What's beyond question is that the support of New Yorkers, who elected De Blasio believing his promises of equal treatment for all, will depend to a great degree -- after the Garner…
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National Guard arrives at Texas-Mexico border
Immigrant rights advocates say the National Guard is not trained to deal with immigrants or minors, and the border should not be militarized. The first units of the National Guard…
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A map of the U.S., if there had never been a Mexican-American war
Many Americans did not necessarily link national progress with geographic expansion. So it's possible to conceive of a lesser America by positing the absence of the Mexican War.
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The dark side of the American Dream
Photo series captures the physical violence suffered by immigrants trying to make it across the border
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Cornel West: “He posed as a progressive and turned out to be counterfeit…”
Exclusive: Cornel West talks Ferguson, Hillary, MSNBC -- and unloads on the failed promise of Barack Obama
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Taxes: who pays how much in eight charts
Ideological arguments about whether taxes are too high or too low miss the crucial question of who ends up bearing how much of the burden of financing our public sector.
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Behind Obama’s ‘chaotic’ foreign policy
"The chaos enveloping U.S. foreign policy stems from President Obama's unwillingness to challenge Official Washington's power centers which favor neoconservatism and 'liberal…
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Ferguson and the reign of terror
In October 2005, two young men, equally unarmed, were gunned down in an action that has gone unpunished; coincidentally, one of them was also named Michael Brown.
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