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'Losing' the World: American Decline in Perspective, Part 1

Mormon Economics and the GOP

Romney's Big Problem

'Colbert Report': Contraception Crusade

The Afghan War's Nine Lives

Apple’s China Comes Home to Haunt Us
By Robert Scheer

Will Catholic Bishops and the Religious Right Save Obama?
By Joe Conason

Romney’s Big Problem
By E.J. Dionne, Jr.

Greek Unrest the Result of Suppressed Democracy
By William Pfaff

Mormon Economics and the GOP

White House Isn’t Buying What Syria Is Selling

Prison Fire Kills More Than 300 in Honduras

Congress Might Actually Make a Payroll Tax Deal Soon

Greeks ‘Cannot Take Any More’

Class vs. Race

Putin on Trial ... Almost

‘Colbert Report’: Contraception Crusade

Boehner: Time to Stop Playing ‘Political Games’ With the Tax Cut Bill

‘Freedom Watch’ Goes Dark

Herman Cain Will Not Dance With the Stars

Giving Famous Nudes the Photoshop Treatment

Hollywood Republicans: Rare, but Still There

Whitney Houston and the Politics of Posthumous Pricing

The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

Dig led by Mike Rose

Financial Meltdown 101

A Dig compiled by the editors of Truthdig

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

By Michael Lewis
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‘Homeland Security USA’: The Outtakes

By G.W. Schulz, Center for Investigative Reporting —

The inaugural episode of ABC’s newest reality television series did exactly as producer Arnold Shapiro told viewers it would: unabashedly celebrated the Department of Homeland Security. It also failed in every conceivable way to critically examine the largest reorganization of the federal government since World War II.