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GOP: Masters of Media
The Republicans may have taken a drubbing in the presidential election, but they’re winning the bigger…
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Our Iron Curtain
As the U.S. senate considers an immigration reform bill in June that includes a path to citizenship…
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Obama’s SEC Cop-Out
Mary Jo White, confirmed April 8 as President Barack Obama’s choice for chair of the Securities and…
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The Problem Is Capitalism
In “Lean Socialist: Why Liberalism Needs Socialism—and Vice Versa” (May 2013), Bhaskar Sunkara calls for…
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Revoking Amnesty for Death Squads
Twenty years ago in March, the government of El Salvador passed an amnesty law that granted immunity from…
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The Right to Call In Sick
“I’ve gone to work horribly ill many times,” says Susan Lund, a grocery worker…
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Maggie Thatcher, Milk Snatcher
At the moment when it was announced that Margaret Thatcher had died, Prime Minister David Cameron must have…
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FCC: Fronting For Corporations?
President Obama nominated Tom Wheeler the next chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and Grant Seiffert, the…
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The Next Chavez?
The most important number to come out of April’s disputed Venezuelan election is not Nicolá…
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Demystifying India
One of my sons has lived in India for more than 10 years. He’s written books about…

