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Three Questions Left Unanswered by Obama’s Counterterrorism Speech

How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour

Marching in Chicago: Resisting Rahm Emanuel’s Neoliberal Savagery

Colbert Slams PBS for Appeasing Koch Brothers

Corporate Tax Cheats by the Numbers

A Cooler Century? Wait and See
By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network

Marching in Chicago: Resisting Rahm Emanuel’s Neoliberal Savagery
By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout

Three Questions Left Unanswered by Obama’s Counterterrorism Speech
By Bill Blum

New York City’s Summers May Heat Up
By Tim Radford, Climate News Network

Taking Gay Hypocrites to Task Over Bradley Manning

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British Terror Attack Suspect Had Watched Friend Cut to Pieces

Corporate Tax Cheats by the Numbers

‘Children Are Dying’

Gay Boys Free to Join Still-Bigoted Scouts

Ai Weiwei’s New Music Video Is Not About Profanity

‘Left, Right & Center’: Obama Ends the War on Terror

Why Is the IRS Involved in Politics in the First Place?

Colbert Slams PBS for Appeasing Koch Brothers

How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour
By Nomi Prins

A Call to Action
By James Cromwell

‘SNL’: Stefon’s Farewell Features Anderson Cooper

Act of Congress
By Jesse Eisinger

The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

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Gore Vidal: His Life and Legacy

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Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World’s Prosperity Depends on It

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Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities

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Tag: Trains

Dumb Ways to Die

An Australian train company has employed grim humor in a sing-a-long a public service video warning against behaving carelessly in the presence of piranhas, unrefrigerated food and trains.

Posted on Nov 28, 2012 READ MORE

Barack Obama rode to Washington, D.C., for his presidential inauguration on a whistle-stop tour, which was compared to the train ride taken by Abraham Lincoln in 1861. The train holds a deeper symbolism, though, that undergirds Obama’s historic ascension to the White House.

Posted on Jan 20, 2009 READ MORE | 5 COMMENTS

Flickr / tomsaint11

This Common-Sense Solution Brought to You by the 19th Century

Barack Obama wants to spend as much as a trillion dollars on the nation’s infrastructure, from roads to bridges. A video on his transition Web site even touts the economic advantages of fixing potholes. Why so car-centric? A new article in the Washington Monthly claims that spending some of that money on rail lines instead of roads could pay dividends.