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Lock Up Washington

Rise Up or Die

Revenge of the Bear: Russia Strikes Back in Syria

California Man Sues Officers He Says Nearly Beat Him to Death

The Promise of a Courageous Al-Jazeera America May Be Fading

Lock Up Washington
By Richard Reeves

Too Soon to Tell: The Case for Hope, Continued
By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch

Warming Climate Endangers U.K. Farming
By Kieran Cooke, Climate News Network

Real American Boy: How Our Byzantine Immigration System and Failed Economy May Have Made a Terrorist
By Susan Zakin

California Man Sues Officers He Says Nearly Beat Him to Death

The Promise of a Courageous Al-Jazeera America May Be Fading

A Step Closer to Immigration Reform

GOP Senator’s Hypocrisy on Tornado Aid, Jon Stewart Hates Washington, and More

Our God of Imagination

Videos Capture Scary EF-5 Oklahoma Tornado

Economic Murder: How and Why Austerity Kills

‘Left, Right & Center’: The White House Scandal Trifecta

Save Our Democracy: Buy the L.A. Times for $660 Million

‘The Daily Show’: Stewart Slams Hypocrites Cheney and Rumsfeld

‘SNL’: Stefon’s Farewell Features Anderson Cooper

Act of Congress
By Jesse Eisinger

Daily Rituals
By Gabriel Thompson

The Girls of Atomic City
By Scott Martelle

The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

Dig led by Mike Rose

Gore Vidal: His Life and Legacy

Dig led by Truthdig Staff

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated

By Gore Vidal
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Minimum Wage Should Be More Than $20

If the federal minimum wage had kept pace with changes in worker productivity, busboys and baristas would be making at least $21.72 an hour today, according to a study by the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

Posted on Feb 14, 2013 READ MORE

Democracy Now!

Truthdigger of the Week: Dean Baker

By Alexander Reed Kelly —

“We all misjudged the risks involved,” former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said in March 2010 of the housing bubble that led to the financial crisis. He forgot about economist Dean Baker.

Posted on Dec 15, 2012 READ MORE

Economist Baker Echoes Paul Krugman: There Is No Fiscal Cliff

As President Obama promises to bargain away changes to spending and social programs in exchange for income tax increases in the top two brackets, leading economist Dean Baker criticizes the so-called fiscal cliff threat as a myth.