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Swanson: Confessions of a Drone
May 01, 2012
They told me I was the best, better than any human. I didn't hesitate. I didn't flinch. I didn't think
Shah: Revenge of the Microbes
Apr 30, 2012
The sad truth is that each wonder drug we’ve thrown at malaria—and every other infectious disease—has fallen to drug-resistant pathogens
Schechter: The Inequality That Ate American Democracy
Apr 26, 2012
We can all expect to lose because economics (and inequality) guides and trumps politics
Schechter: “Spring Trained” For May Day
Apr 23, 2012
Can this relatively new movement pull off an ambitious General Strike to shut down a city like New York?
Schechter: Media Coverage of Elections
Apr 17, 2012
Our media coverage plays as intense a role in undermining democracy as the relative handful of wealthy donors who now dominate and finance our politics
Swanson: Daddy, Where Do Taxes Come From?
Apr 14, 2012
57% of government spending (in President Obama's proposal for 2013) goes to wars and preparations for wars
Street: Ozzie, Fidel, and the U.S. Media Double Standard
Apr 13, 2012
So what was Ozzie Guillen's great sin? He said something nice (sort of) about somebody you are ordered to loathe in Miami
Street: The Manipulation of Populism
Apr 11, 2012
We can be sure that Obama is not about to seriously buck the masters with the bucks, who determine success or failure in the nation’s incredibly expensive elections market
Schechter: Mike Wallace and the News Era He Led
Apr 10, 2012
The values of the market have torpedoed whatever senses of mission most of our media may have once been seen to have
Street: Dewey’s Shadow
Apr 07, 2012
No U.S. president is about to defy the nation’s real power centers by advancing a vision of health care that transcends the narrow “horizons of property and enterprise”
Street: Biden’s Sordid Metaphor
Apr 05, 2012
The White House’s restructuring plan for the auto industry in 2009 included letting the company raid union pension funds to pay off wealthy Wall Street investors
Slaughter: Supply Chain Workers Test Strength of Links
Apr 01, 2012
What might it take to unravel the thorny knots separating workers from each other?
Street: Obama, Trayvon, and American Racism
Mar 31, 2012
In 35 large U.S. cities the official joblessness count for blacks rose to between 30 and 35 percent – levels like those suffered at the depths of the Great Depression
Shiva: Science and Democracy
Mar 28, 2012
The debate on Genetic Engineering and Nuclear Power is a test case of the intense conflict between corporate rule and democracy
Schechter: The Final Four Or More?
Mar 27, 2012
Obama has clearly calculated that his hopes for re-election depend on the public perceiving him as a hard-line commander in chief steering us smoothly through a dangerous world
Swanson: The Shifting Strategies of Empire
Mar 25, 2012
Belief in humanitarian war keeps the dollars flowing into the beast that produces all the actual wars, the non-humanitarian wars, the murderous wars
Schirmer: What Wisconsin Will Recall
Mar 20, 2012
Though “recall” has rhetorical power, it doesn’t adequately describe the outrage at injustice that spurred last year’s mobilization
Street: The Deeper Crime: the Invasion Itself
Mar 19, 2012
The United States' attack on Afghanistan met none of the standard international moral and legal criteria for justifiable self-defense
Street: Money, Politics, and Betrayal
Mar 18, 2012
Obama will do everything he can to pose as a champion of “the 99%” against “Mr. 1%” (actually Mr. .025%) Romney
May 02, 2012
The signs of hardship have intensified under Barack Obama