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A dangerous squabble A New York Times editorial Among the Senate’s most important tasks this year are fashioning a rational, humane immigration policy and a rational, comprehensive…
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By Bill Press What difference does it make who's on the Supreme Court? All the difference in the world. And few have ever made more difference than John Paul Stevens. A Republican,…
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By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship From Truthout.org With all due respect, we can only wish those Tea Party activists who gathered in Washington and other cities this week weren't…
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By Max J. Castro The Tea Party movement, as it emerges from this survey, represents a radical right tinged with racism and resentment against what it believes to be the takeover of…
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By Saul Landau Write “war games.” Hit Google search. In a millisecond untold possibilities appear. I endure a Charmin toilet paper commercial where a cartoon bear wipes his butt with…
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By Robert Reich From the Robert Reich blog I was born in 1946, just when the boomer wave began. Bill Clinton was born that year, too. So was George W. So was Laura Bush. And Ken…
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By Bill Press For Christians and Jews everywhere, whether they celebrate Easter or Passover, this is the most holy time of the year. How unfortunate, then, that so many people chose…
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By Max J. Castromaxjcastro@gmail.com In the mining industry, workers are expendable. The tragedy at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia, where 29 miners died in an explosion,…
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By Saul Landau Scandals distract the public from focusing on key issues. Sometimes, however, they also provide insights into the character of leading cultural and political figures --…
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From the   Robert Reich blog I’m in the “green room” at ABC News, waiting to join a roundtable panel discussion on ABC’s weekly Sunday news program, This Week. Alan Greenspan…
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