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Time to Disband the Supercommittee
Time to Disband the Supercommittee
The vast majority of Americans want Congress to focus on jobs. So why is it still focused on deficit reduction—and making key budget decisions in secret?
Capitalism vs. the Climate
Capitalism vs. the Climate
Denialists are dead wrong about the science. But they understand something the left still doesn’t get about the revolutionary meaning of climate change.
Stanching the Flow of Corporate Dollars into Campaigns
Stanching the Flow of Corporate Dollars into Campaigns
When our nation arrives at a level of corruption we cannot bear, we shouldn’t.
Field Notes From the Revolution: Activists Occupy California’s Imperial Valley
Field Notes From the Revolution: Activists Occupy California’s Imperial Valley
I thought I might find a simple meme of the Wall Street protest. What I discovered was a desert flower brought to blossom by an activist tradition, coalition-building and old-fashioned grit.
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Books and the Arts
Punitive yet salvific, austerity is the ideology of a country that has turned against its own culture.
Jem Cohen’s Newsreel No. 1, Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre, Andrew Niccol’s In Time
News for All the People is a journalistic morality tale.
News and Analysis
Blaming themselves for their plight, the unemployed don’t look to protest—or to government—for a way out.
It’s not surprising that Greece’s proposed referendum elicited such outrage. Europe doesn’t work like that.
As Seattle police chief in 1999, my disastrous response to the WTO protests should have been a cautionary tale. Yet our police forces have only become more militarized.
The crisis was caused by weak governance, excessive speculation and lax regulation. Austerity will only make the disease worse.
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While our tech-obsessed media fondled their iPhones, it was left to a courageous and talented monologist to discover the real legacy of the company’s legendary founder.
Hank Skinner was scheduled to die on November 9, but his execution was halted by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Will the state finally agree to test the evidence in his case?
Returning to Chile decades after Allende’s death, I was no longer a soldier of the revolution. What changed?
The protesters have put their faith in the last seemingly credible force in the world: each other.
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