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By Bill Press Starting with Jerry Brown in 1976, I've been to nine Democratic conventions and seven Republican conventions. And, for better or worse, there are some convention…
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By Bill Press Having failed to make their case talking about jobs and the economy, Republicans now say they want to make this campaign a debate about Medicare (when they're not…
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By James Martin, S.J. From America, the national Catholic weekly The Lazy Paralytic 1. When Jesus returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at his home. 2.…
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By Saul Landau Seated in the upper upper deck at San Francisco’s AT&T Park, during a Giants-Rockies baseball game, one would not know millions of people around the nation…
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From Cuban Americans for Engagement (CAFE) To the Republican and Democratic National Committees: In light of both the upcoming Republican and Democratic conventions we, as Cuban…
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By M.S. Bellows Jr. From The Guardian (Progreso Editor’s Note: This is an abridged version of a much longer piece that appeared in the British newspaper The Guardian.) There…
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By Danny Glover and Saul Landau People stop in Victorville California 85 miles northeast of Los Angeles because they have to see someone at one of its several prisons (federal, state,…
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By Bill Press Scary things sometimes come in pretty packages. Take Paul Ryan. Most members of the media have a man-crush on him. When he released his 2012 budget, the New York Times…
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By Bill Press In case you didn't know, Congress is in recess. They've given themselves a five-week break. Unanimously. This week they voted "without objection" not to come…
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By Saul Landau Reading Jerry Mander’s The Capitalism Papers: Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System (Counterpoint: Berkeley, 2012), I recalled lessons from my first Marxism…
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