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The unkindest cut
For 47 million Americans who receive government food stamps, November may turn out to be that cruelest of months. Recipients have been getting substantially less than they have in the…
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MLK’s economic dream: A guaranteed income for all Americans
One of the more under-appreciated aspects of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legacy is that by the end of his career, he had fashioned himself into a crusader against poverty, not just…
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Speculation on Cuba
Tom Hayden writes that all signs point towards normalization with Cuba by the end of President Barack Obama's second term.
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Tea Party was the big loser
Coast to coast, the dust has settled from last Tuesday's elections, and one thing is clear. Democrats won some, Republicans won some. There were winners and losers on both sides.
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Merkel fumes over phone-tapping
When she learned from Der Spiegel that the NSA had been tapping her cellphone, Merkel was so outraged she immediately called President Obama and told him to knock it off.
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The gang that can’t shoot straight
It's too early to write the history of the Obama administration. But, at this point, it looks like, for the most part, that history may be summed up in three words: coulda, woulda,…
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Intentional blindness that kills
A storm that was only a Category 2 when it hit the northeast virtually paralyzed the Big Apple last year. What would have happened if a Category 5 had hit? Picture Manhattan as a lake.…
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Can Havana trust Washington again?
Revelations made by The Washington Post give additional credibility to Cuba's complaint that Havana, in good faith, gave Washington information about right-wing terrorist groups in…
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The fork on the path to immigration reform
Angelo Falcon, president of the National Institute for Latino Policy, discusses one of the most pressing issues being faced in the U.S. today - immigration reform. And he is not…
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GOP tastes the agony of defeat
This time it didn't work. In fact, it failed miserably and the Republicans fell on their collective faces in front of the whole nation. It did "succeed" in a number of unintended ways,…
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