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Smith-Ferri: Dreaming of Duvets
Oct 23, 2012
In Afghanistan, with a child mortality rate of nearly twenty percent, many children never even have a chance to form dreams, yet alone to realize one
Schulte: Is It A Woman's World Now?
Oct 20, 2012
If conditions and opportunities for women have improved at all, it's because there was a struggle to improve them
Sturgis: The Anti-Scientists
Oct 11, 2012
Members of the House Science Committee that have expressed anti-scientific views
Street: There’s No Economy on a Dead Planet
Oct 09, 2012
There’s something missing from the presidential campaign, including the first presidential debate last week – the fate of the Earth
Schechter: The Russell Tribunal on Palestine
Oct 08, 2012
The needs and concerns of the Palestinian people are not in the news much in the United States even though the issues have been around for decades
Schechter: Is IranTelling Us Something?
Oct 02, 2012
There are clearly initiatives underway to build bridges, but so far, media outlets, eager to fan the flames of confrontation and polarization, have ignored them
Street: On Class Rule and Theater Politics
Sep 30, 2012
Romney is taking “out of touch” to a new level. He seems straight from central casting when it comes to helping Obama easily beat the Republicans
Sturgis: Disenfranchising Latino Voters
Sep 28, 2012
Number of states that have enacted voting restrictions, which a new report from the Advancement Project finds will have a disproportionate effect on Latino voters: 23
Slaughter: Strikes at Walmart
Sep 26, 2012
A strike at Walmart? Two of them
Sturgis: Fracking's Toll On Communities
Sep 25, 2012
A new report examines the environmental and health damage from fracking
Schechter: When Is A Terrorist Not A Terrorist?
Sep 24, 2012
Question: When is a terrorist a terrorist? Answer: When the US government says so
Street: The 1% and the 47%
Sep 23, 2012
As the rich never admit, they aren’t really anti-government. They are for big government that serves elite interests and punishes the rest
Sturgis: Reality & Romney's Tax Claims
Sep 22, 2012
Date that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney told wealthy donors that "47 percent" of U.S. voters "pay no income tax": 9/17/2012
Schechter: An “October Surprise?
Sep 19, 2012
Obama may need a conflict to win over independents
Swanson: It's Us or the Nukes
Sep 17, 2012
The nukes have got to go, or we do. This planet's not big enough for both
Street: Striking Neoliberalism in Chicago
Sep 14, 2012
Teachers unions and indeed public schools have become perfect foils for misdirecting legitimate popular anger over the failings of the educational system
Street: Striking Neoliberalism in Chicago
Sep 13, 2012
The progressive Chicago Teachers Union has courageously drawn a line in the sand
Sturgis: A Negligent Oil Industry
Sep 09, 2012
Number of oil industry accidents reported in Louisiana so far in the wake of Hurricane Isaac: 93
Shiva: Myths About Industrial Agriculture
Sep 07, 2012
Our farms and our bodies are our labs, and every farmer and every citizen is a scientist who knows best how bad farming and bad food hurts the land and our health
Oct 29, 2012
Each oh-so-dangerous demonstrator has been issued an order of protection -- not to protect them but to protect the Lieutenant Colonel from them