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By Ellen Goodman
Thinking Tuna Fish, Talking Death
By Robert Scheer
Hardcover $13.16
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
I was out of the country only nine days, hardly a blink in time, but time enough, as it happened, for another small, airless room to be added to the American national security labyrinth.
Posted on Apr 4, 2012
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By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout —
The killing of a young African-American boy, Trayvon Martin, by an overzealous white Hispanic security guard who appears to have capitulated to the dominant post-racial presumption that equates the culture of criminality with the culture of blackness, has devolved into a spectacle.
Posted on Apr 4, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — The problem for Mitt Romney, assuming he eventually wins the GOP nomination, is that a general election campaign isn’t really like an Etch A Sketch. Alas, traces from the primaries linger.
Posted on Apr 3, 2012
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — Our 16 national intelligence agencies and army of private contractors justify their existence by turning even the mundane into a potential threat. And by the time they finish, the nation will be a gulag.
Posted on Apr 2, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Imagine the shock when conservative Supreme Court justices repeatedly spouted views closely resembling the tweets and talking points issued by organizations of the sort funded by the Koch brothers.
Posted on Apr 1, 2012
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By Lauren Unger-Geoffroy — Those who can have chosen to selectively forget the worst of recent memories, but most sense a new wave of conflict, gathering at a distance and surging toward them.
Posted on Apr 1, 2012
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By John Feffer, TomDispatch —
Though they belong to a largely underground cult, the members of the Obama-is-Muslim congregation number as many as one-third of all Republicans, and a recent poll found that only 14 percent of Republicans in Alabama and Mississippi believe that the president is a Christian.
Posted on Mar 30, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — If Obamacare is struck down, a much more far-reaching overhaul of the health care system will be inevitable.
Posted on Mar 30, 2012
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Americans of all stripes have signaled their support for slain teenager Trayvon Martin as the call for justice in response to his Feb. 26 shooting death in Sanford, Fla., soared in recent days.
Posted on Mar 29, 2012
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Flickr / Mark Fischer (CC-BY-SA)
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By Bill Boyarsky — “There is an important connection, a profound connection, between that problem and liberty. And I do think it’s important that we not lose sight of that,” Solicitor General Donald Verrilli told the Supreme Court.
Posted on Mar 29, 2012
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By Kim Barker and Al Shaw, ProPublica —
For an example of the fluidity of campaign finance rules, as well as the tangled web of connections between candidates and super PACs, look no further than the digital consulting firm Targeted Victory.
Posted on Mar 29, 2012
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AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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By Robert Scheer — The Supreme Court is so full of it, but the sad truth is that President Obama and the Democrats brought this potential judicial disaster upon themselves.
Posted on Mar 29, 2012
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By Joe Conason — We know how tea party Republicans would cope with the financial problem posed by ill and injured people who show up at hospitals without coverage. They told us last fall during the presidential debate in Tampa, Fla., when they cheered for “Let him die!”
Posted on Mar 29, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Three days of Supreme Court arguments over the health care law demonstrated for all to see that conservative justices are prepared to act as an alternative legislature, diving deeply into policy details as if they were members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
Posted on Mar 29, 2012
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