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Wednesday October 31, 2012

Bill McKibben: Sandy Forces Climate Change on US Election Despite Fossil Fuel Lobby
David Morris: A Stormy Reminder of Why We Need Government
Aviva Shen: Romney Campaign Staged Donations At Storm Relief Event
Lizz Winstead: Hey Super PACs, Superstorm Sandy Just Gave You a Great Cause for Your Millions
Richard Eskow: God's Stimulus? It'll Take More Than Just Money to Recover From Sandy
Frances Moore Lappé and Diane Moss: Facing Sandy's Fury, Don't Let Clean Energy Naysayers Deny Us Hope
John Nichols: Yes, Romney's a Liar, But This Is Getting Ridiculous
Yifat Susskind: From Haiti with Love: Words of Support Through the Storm
Jim Hightower: The Corporate Mad Dogs of Citizens United
David Pomerantz: Global Warming = Sandy. Which Politicians Get It, Which Don’t
Susan Clark and Woden Teachout: In Praise of Slow Democracy
John Atcheson: The National Voter Qualification Test: A Modest Proposal
Danny Glover: Why Chavez Won Again

Tuesday October 30, 2012

Bill McKibben: Name Storms After Oil Companies (The Ones Most Responsible for Climate Change)
Daphne Wysham: On Not Scaring Ourselves to Death: Moving Beyond the Adrenaline Rush of a Good Storm to an Energy Revolution
William K. Black: The Great Betrayal – and the Cynicism of Calling it a Grand Bargain
Kathy Kelly: Survival and Dignity in an Afghan Winter
Tom Mitchell: Has Sandy Abruptly Put Climate Change on the Election Agenda?
George Lakoff: Yes, Global Warming Systemically Caused Hurricane Sandy
John Nichols: Mitt Romney Is Just Not That Into Federal Disaster Relief
George Monbiot: When Corporations Bankroll Politics, We All Pay the Price
Bill McKibben: Hurricane Sandy has Drowned the New York I Love
Mike Tidwell: We Are All from New Orleans Now: Climate Change, Hurricanes and the Fate of America's Coastal Cities
Ira Chernus: Who Lost the World? The Curious Case of How Libya Became an Election Issue
Kostas Vaxevanis: Greece Gave Birth to Democracy. Now It Has Been Cast Out by a Powerful Elite
Tim Dickinson: Helpless in a Hurricane: Mitt Romney's Five Dumbest Budget Cuts
Stan Sorscher: We Don’t Know, Exactly, What the Trans-Pacific Partnership Is, But I’m Against It

Monday October 29, 2012

Elizabeth Kolbert: Watching Sandy, Ignoring Climate Change
Rebecca Solnit: Naming Our Storms: On Climate and Clarity
Naomi Klein: Geoengineering: Testing the Waters
Phyllis Bennis: Why Elections Matter—and Why We're Still Arguing About It
Bill McKibben: Why ‘Frankenstorm’ Is Just Right for Hurricane Sandy
Sarah Anderson and Scott Klinger: 10 Filthy-Rich, Tax-Dodging Hypocrites Pushing Disastrous Austerity on America
Gar Smith: Frankenstorms and the Fukushima Factor
Michael T. Klare: Romney's Extremist Energy Plan and the Systematic Plundering of America
Paul Krugman: Romney-Ryan and the Slashing of Medicaid
Jamie Henn: Ahead of Sandy, New Yorkers say 'End Climate Silence'

Sunday October 28, 2012

Glenn Greenwald: US Detention of Imran Khan Part of Trend to Harass Anti-Drone Advocates
Tony Norman: And Now, a Word from Mr. Mourdock's God
Juan Cole: Syria Crisis Shakes Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia as Cease-Fire Crumbles
Lawrence Davidson: Telling Truths about Israel, Palestine
Robert Shetterly: You Can Vote, but Can You Vote for Democracy?
Jim Goodman: Just Label It: Let the People Decide

Saturday October 27, 2012

Juan Cole: Candidates Flee East Coast as Frankenstorm Takes Revenge for their Ignoring Climate Change
Michelle Chen: World Bank’s Anti-Labor Index Is a Dirty Business
Steve Horn: Tar Sands South: First US Tar Sands Mine Approved in Utah
Amy Dean: Lesson From Chicago: We Need Resources and Accountability to Avoid a Two-Tiered Education System
Michael Paarlberg: Can the Company Fire You for the Way You Vote?
Greg Mitchell: It Might Save Obama This Year, but the Electoral College Must Go!
Christopher Brauchli: Voters and Debaters
Tom Engelhardt: Unintended Consequences and the U.S. Military

Friday October 26, 2012

Ralph Nader: Capitol Hill’s Rabid, Ravaging Republicans
Ross Caputi: The Victims of Fallujah's Health Crisis Are Stifled by Western Silence
Katha Pollitt: Ladies, Don't Fall for Moderate Mitt!
Aura Bogado: Suppression Surges as Election Nears
John Nichols: Paul Ryan Takes a Side in the War on Poverty: He's Against What Works
Michelle Chen: The Formula for ‘Equal Opportunity’: Why Affirmative Action Isn’t Enough
Carl Gibson: 'We Pay More': US Austerity Well Underway
Robert Naiman: Five Specific Questions Journalists Should Ask About the Drone Strike Policy
Rebekah Wilce: Big Ag Ad Blitz Puts GMO Labeling in Jeopardy
Glenn Greenwald: Journalism in the Obama Age Shows the Real Media Bias
Robert Reich: If You Succumb to Cynicism, The Regressives Win it All
Matt Taibbi: On Obama and 'Too Big To Fail' Banks: A Brief Response
Harvey Wasserman: Rust-Bucket Nuclear Reactors Start to Fail
Greg Kaufmann: Bigger Than Big Foot: Paul Ryan's Mythological Poverty Policies
David Macaray: Rebooting Our Definition of “Patriotism”

Thursday October 25, 2012

Marion Brady: The Education-Testing Complex of Mass Destruction
Phyllis Bennis and John Cavanagh: Paul Wellstone, We Miss You
Rajesh Makwana: Proposing a Vision of a New Earth
Rose Ann DeMoro: What’s At Stake When Billionaires Try to Buy Our Democracy
Nick Turse: America's Failed Formula for Worldwide War
Amy Goodman: Prop 37: California's Fight for GM Labeling Should Matter to All of US
Chloë Cooney: On Women's Rights Worldwide, The 1980s Are Calling…
Mairead Maguire: Why I Cannot Support the Nobel Prize for the EU
Paul Muir: CIA Drones Spur Radical Movements in Pakistan and Yemen
John Nichols: From Paul Wellstone to Elizabeth Warren
Philip Ackermen-Leist: Bill and Lou: A Parable for Saving our Broken Food System
David Gutman: Objectivity Does Not Mean Neutrality: The Danger of False Equivalency in the Media
Jessica Valenti: Ending Rape Illiteracy
Karel van Wolferen: The Disabling Pacific ‘Alliance’

Wednesday October 24, 2012

Glenn Greenwald: Obama Moves to Make the 'War on Terror' Permanent
Ralph Nader: Solutions Worth Debating
Dean Baker: Why Even President Obama Won't Champion Social Security
Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez: The Cabal Behind the Curtain
David Suzuki: Canadian Government Continues to Choose Dirty Energy Over Democracy
Mark Morford: Frightened Men Love Romney
Jim Hightower: Helping Republicans Find Real Voter Fraud in America
Scott Bulua and Stephen Elkind: A Bird! A Plane! Or a Domestic US Drone?
Jonathan Cook: Israel‘s Formula for a Starvation Diet
Jill Schneiderman: Predictably Unpredictable Earthquakes Require Compassion, Not Conviction
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Paul Wellstone — 10 Years Later
Steve Cobble: Remembering George McGovern and Old-School Campaign Tools

Tuesday October 23, 2012

Glenn Greenwald: Joe Klein's Sociopathic Defense of Drone Killings of Children
Charles P. Pierce: Nothing Is Foreign to the Liar Willard Romney Anymore
Tom Engelhardt: My Big Fat American Election
John Robbins: Monsanto's Lies and the GMO Labeling Battle
Stephen Zunes: Bizarro Romney's Foreign Policy
David Smith-Ferri: In Afghanistan, Dreams of Duvets and Nightmares of War
Amy Davidson: Kind Hearts and Bayonets (and Battleships)
George Lakey: How to Create a Multi-Level Movement for Climate Justice
John Nichols: Foreign Policy Really Is Foreign to Mitt Romney
Rachel Shabi: The Death of the Israel-Palestine Two-State Solution Brings Fresh Hope
Laura Flanders: What a Difference Other Candidates Make
Linda McQuaig: Binders Full of Women and the Matriarchy Myth
Conor Friedersdorf: What If Mitt Romney Inherits Obama's Killer Drone Fleet?
David Roberts: Climate Silence: It’s the Right, Stupid
Cherri Foytlin: Keystone XL Pipeline Blockaders Face Arrests, Lawsuits in Texas
Khaled Diab: Hopes of Egyptian Women Dashed by Paternalistic Draft Constitution
Gary Younge: Obama Fires and Romney Falters but Third Debate Fails

Monday October 22, 2012

Tom Junod: The Lethal Debate: Questions About Killing
Gary Younge: This Presidential Election Show is Lame, But the Outcome Could Be Dramatic
Maude Barlow: I Stand with Those Who Stand Against Tar Sands Pipelines
Richard Falk: From Hope to Fear: 2008 vs. 2012
Karen Greenberg: Will the Apocalypse Arrive Online?
Jane Gleeson-White: Is GDP's Reign as the Only Measure of Wealth Coming to an End?
Lawrence Wittner: Local Governments and National Security Policy
Eugene Robinson: The Candidates Chill on Climate Change
Julia Butterfly Hill: A Report from Tar Sands Blockade in Texas
Pepe Escobar: Time Is Tight to Produce a Worthy US Dream
Tim Schwab: Of Course Monsanto Says It’s Safe
Sasha Lyutse: Turning “Big Ag” into “Better Ag”

Sunday October 21, 2012

Chris Hedges: McGovern: He Never Sold His Soul
Karl Grossman: McGovern Was Prescient About America
Rupert Cornwell: Poverty: The Election Issue That Dare Not Speak Its Name
John Nichols: George McGovern: Touchstone of Liberalism
Haroon Siddiqui: American Bombing of Iraq Left Legacy of Deformed Babies
Michelle Chen: Pesticide Threat Looms Large Over Farmworker Families
Danny Schechter: US Election Concern: What Is There To Vote For?
Michael Lind: Hard Times Hardly Hurt the Superrich

Saturday October 20, 2012

Jeff Bachman: Growing Oppostion to US Drones Program
Frida Berrigan: Stories from an Insurrectionary Childhood
Glenn Greenwald: The Remarkable, Unfathomable Ignorance of Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Robert Borosage: A Tribute to George McGovern
Eric Margolis: Countdown to Armageddon: The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
Harvey Wasserman and Bob Fitrakis: Does Your E-Vote Now Belong to the Romney Family?

Friday October 19, 2012

Seumas Milne: The End of the New World Order
Glenn Greenwald: US Justice Likely Coming Soon to Benghazi with Extrajudicial Executions
Carol Rose: When Police Spy on Free Speech, Democracy Suffers
Robert Scheer: Meet Romney’s Economic Hit Man
Zack Kaldveer: Pesticide Industry Backed Opponents of GMO Labeling Get Criminal in California
Conor Friedersdorf: On War and Peace, George McGovern Will Die Vindicated
Katherine Sciacchitano: Making Labor Pay and Why We Need Universal Pensions
Bridgette Dunlap: A Question for Anti-Choicers: How, Exactly, Would Your Rape Exception Work?
Sadhbh Walshe: Proposition 36 Promises an End to California's Punitive 3 Strikes Law
Wen Stephenson: Cue the Math: 350’s Roadshow Takes Aim at Big Oil
Steve Horn: Fracking Your Future: Shale Gas Industry Targets College Campuses, K-12 Schools

Thursday October 18, 2012

Daniel Ellsberg: Defeat Romney, Without Illusions about Obama
Amy Goodman: Binders Full of Women, and Two Women Bound
Michael Parenti: The Nobel Peace Prize for War
Janine Jackson: Sympathy for Pakistani Girl Shows Limits of Concern
Ralph Nader: Time for Full-Time Town Jesters
Dilip Hiro: Alliance from Hell: Washington's Pakistan Meltdown
Brendan Fischer: On NFIB Conference Call, Romney Urges Employers to Tell Employees How to Vote, Just Like the Kochs
Jeff Biggers: Clean Coal is a Hoax, Mr. President, So Drop it
Ira Chernus: The Debate: 'So Good Being at Each Other’s Face'

Wednesday October 17, 2012

Jim Hightower: The Dirty Little Secret of Private Equity Profits
George Zornick: Romney’s Seven Biggest Debate Lies
Daryl Hannah: Why I'm Standing Up to TransCanada's Keystone XL Pipeline in East Texas
Randall Amster: Blinded by the Light of an Electoral ‘Reality Show’
Jake Olzen: Food Sovereignty Advocates Occupy the World Food Prize
Laura Flanders: Freedom of Beach: Dump 'Citizens United'
Jay Walljasper: Mitt Romney: What Is This Man Planning for America?
Olivier De Schutter: In a World Hungry for Biofuels, Food Security Must Come First
Mark Morford: Swing Voters for Fun and Terror
Karen Dolan: Rope-a-Dope Revives the Hope
Jill Richardson: The Risky Business of Eating in America
Rajesh Makwana and Adam Parsons: It’s Time to Prioritize the Global Sharing Economy
Tom Engelhardt: How We Gained the Ability to Create Our Own End Times
Dave Lindorff: Children Under Attack in Pakistan and Afghanistan

Tuesday October 16, 2012

Glenn Greenwald: The Lame Rules for Presidential Debates: A Perfect Microcosm of US Democracy
Omar Barghouti: EU Support for Israeli Crimes Makes It Unworthy of Nobel Peace Prize
Noam Chomsky: The Week the World Stood Still: The Cuban Missile Crisis and Ownership of the World
Jezra Thompson: All Together Now: World Food Day 2012
Ann Wright: US Joins Israel in Blockading Education to Students in Gaza
Bernie Sanders: End Polluter Welfare
Jeff Biggers: The Arizonification of America
John Nichols: It's Time to Debate Bain Capitalism
Laurie Penny: The Golden Dawn: Neo-Fascists Rise in a Greece Mired in Austerity Pain
David Morris: Is It All About Hormones?
Brendan Fischer: Koch Social Media Policy May Be Unlawful
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Cause For Hope: Robin Hood Tax Advances in Europe

Monday October 15, 2012

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: Justice to the Highest Bidder
Paul Buchheit: Five Ways Deregulation Is Ripping America Apart
Kristin Moe: Much at Stake as Possibility of Tar Sands Pipeline Looms
Ray McGovern: Libya: Policy Bankrupt, Diplomats Dead
Chris Hedges: Join the Blockade of the Keystone Pipeline
Paul Krugman: Death By Ideology: Yes, Mitt, Lack of Insurance Does Kill People
Vandana Shiva: Giant Walmart vs. the Small Farmer
Joseph Nevins: The Privilege of Being Human: Ecological Crisis and the Need to Challenge the Twenty Percent
Jonathan Turley: Shut Up and Play Nice: How the Western World is Limiting Free Speech
John Vidal: UN Warns of Looming Worldwide Food Crisis in 2013
George Lakoff: Moral Leadership: In a Presidential Debate, and for Real
Jeremiah Goulka: Of Republicans, Race Cards, and Voter ID Laws

Sunday October 14, 2012

David Smith-Ferri: Sunrise and Sunset in Afghanistan
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman: Will E-Voting Machines Owned by His Buddies Give Mitt Romney the White House?
Carolina Rossini: Canada-EU Trade Agreement Replicates ACTA’s Notorious Copyright Provisions
Sarah Anderson: European Victory on Taxing Speculation
Jean Casella and James Ridgeway: Kids in Solitary Confinement: America's Official Child Abuse
Cecilia Garza: Meet the Crawfish-Peeling Guestworkers Who Inspired Walmart Walkouts
Malalai Joya: 'The Courage to Say No to Misogyny': Statement on the Attack Against 14-Year-Old Malala Yousafzai

Saturday October 13, 2012

Barbara Miner: The False Promises of “School Choice”
Tim Karr: The Internet as Political Lie Detector
Tom Engelhardt: Going Bankrupt on Planet Earth: The Debate Subject for the Ages
Stacy Malkan: Fighting For Prop 37: The Truth that $36 Million Can’t Hide
Greg Kaufmann: The Streak Continues: 2008–12, Will Anyone #TalkPoverty?
Christopher Brauchli: Abortions and Contradictions

Friday October 12, 2012

Rose Ann DeMoro: It’s Up to All of Us to Protect Social Security
David Roberts: Questions at VP Debate Reveal Bankrupt Beltway Thinking
Matt Taibbi: The Vice Presidential Debate: Joe Biden Was Right to Laugh
Glenn Greenwald: Martha Raddatz and the Faux Objectivity of Journalists
John Atcheson: Five Simple Realities Missing from the Campaign
Robin Marty: What Does the Church Think? Women's Rights Framed as Religious Question In VP Debate
Phyllis Bennis: What Went Unmentioned in the Vice Presidential Debate
Brian Terrell: Murder by Drone Unpunished While Drone Protester Heads to Jail
Peter Dreier: Paul Wellstone: 10 Years After His Death, He Still Sets the Bar for a Politics of Conviction
Paul Krugman: Triumph of the Wrong: The GOP's Austerity Plan for America
Mark Engler: Obama: A Better Adversary
Glenn Greenwald: Thoughts on VP Debate (Observations from a Reluctant Pundit)

Thursday October 11, 2012

Michael Pollan: Why California’s Proposition 37 Should Matter to Anyone Who Cares About Food
Robert Reich: Memo to Joe, Re: Debate with Rightwing Zealot
Robert C. Koehler: Empire and Its Consequences
Amy Goodman: Workers Fight for Justice, From Wal-Mart to Chipotle
Alice Ross: Imran Khan’s March Brings Global Attention to CIA Drone Strikes
John Nichols: Debate Question for Paul Ryan: Which of Mitt's Many Sides Are You On?
Matthew Rothschild: Romney in Denial about Lethal Lack of Health Insurance
Stephen Zunes: The Ongoing Attack on Democracy in the Maldives
Desmond Tutu and Ela Bhatt: Today, A Promise to Girls
Peter Van Buren: Don’t Ask and Don’t Tell: Six Critical Foreign Policy Questions You Won't Hear Debated
Glenn Greenwald: US Supreme Court Finalizes Gift of Immunity to the Telecom Giants
Michelle Chen: On Both Sides of the Border, Teachers Fight Corporatization

Wednesday October 10, 2012

Dennis Kucinich: Weapons of Mass Distraction: The Big, Long Lie about Iraq Lingers Still
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: Afghanistan: Killing the Kids that Don’t Need to Die
Matt Taibbi: How the Hype Became Bigger Than the Presidential Election
Martha Burk: The Corporate Court's War on Women
Nancy Northup: It’s Time to ‘Draw the Line’ on Attacks Against Reproductive Freedom
Sharif Abdel Kouddous: Will Egypt's New Constitution Take the Country Backwards?
Wenonah Hauter: Consumer Choice: As American as a Genetically-Altered Apple Pie
Matt Wasson: Big Coal Wins Latest Battle to Blast Historic Blair Mountain
Jim Hightower: The 1 Percent's Cry for Justice
Ralph Nader: Barry Commoner: The Greatest Environmentalist of the 20th Century
Pat LaMarche: Stewart Fails to Counter O'Reilly on Mythical Health Care Claims

Tuesday October 9, 2012

Tom Engelhardt: American Empire: A Disaster on Autopilot
Dorian T. Warren: Go for the Jugular: What a Real Attack on Mitt Romney and the 1% Could Look Like
Medea Benjamin and Robert Naiman: US Delegation's Message of Peace Received Warmly in Pakistan
Mychal Denzel Smith: Why America Needs White History Month
Dean Baker: Social Security: President Obama's Biggest Failure in Last Week's Debate
Robert Shetterly: Making the Possible Impossible: A Curious Encounter with Senator Susan Collins (R-ME)
Kay Tillow: Beware the 'Grand Bargain': Post-Election Deficit Deal Threatens Medicare and Social Security
Dan Gillmor: Facebook's New Business Plan: From Utility to Monopoly
Glenn Greenwald: Election Year Garbage
Antonio Tricarico: The Financial Enclosure of the Commons
Matthew Rothschild: Romney’s Foreign Policy Speech: All War All the Time
Greg Kaufmann: In Between Debates, More Questions from Families for Obama and Romney
Eugene Robinson: The Romney Doctrine Sounds Eerily Similar to Obama's

Monday October 8, 2012

Joan Walsh: Mitt’s Magical Thinking on Foreign Policy
Dana Lone Hill: Columbus Day: No Cause for Celebration
Paul Buchheit: Five Practical Reasons Not To Vote Republican
Chris Hedges: The Maimed: On Eleven Years of War in Afghanistan
Robert Fisk: Plucky Little Turkey Standing Up to Evil Syria? It's Not as Simple as That
John Nichols: Obama and Biden Need to Get Specific About Social Security and Medicare
Jon Walker: Obama Campaign Makes Sure You Know Obama Plans to Cut Social Security
César Chelala: Russell Tribunal Strongly Condemns US and UN on Israel's Policies
Dean Baker: What Price Basic Competence in Economics Reporting?
David Smith-Ferri: Against Odds: An Evening with Children's Joy in Afghanistan
Paul Krugman: The Truth About Jobs

Sunday October 7, 2012

Jim Horn: Paul Tough, KIPP, and the "Science" of Cultural Sterilizatiion
Juan Cole: California Gasoline Crisis Shows Desirability of Hybrid, Electric Cars
Julianne Hing: The Real Audience for ‘Won’t Back Down’ May Not Have Been Moviegoers
Glenn Greenwald: The US Presidential Debates' Illusion of Political Choice
Michelle Chen: Workers and Activists Look Ahead after Gov. Brown Vetoes Pro-Immigrant Bills

Saturday October 6, 2012

Mark Weisbrot: Venezuela Election: Why the Voting is More Trustworthy than the Polling
Bill Bigelow: Rethinking Columbus: Towards a True People's History
Christopher Brauchli: Fraud Found!!!
Amanda Eckerson: Independent and Community Media Collectives Prepare for Venzuelan Elections
Robert Reich: The Politics of the Jobs Report
Amy Goodman: Listen to Third-Party Candidates: This is What Democracy Sounds Like
Carl Gibson: The Illegitimate Debates of 2012
Michelle Chen: From Indonesia to California, Laborers Say ‘No’ to Precarious Work

Friday October 5, 2012

Matt Taibbi: Presidential Debate Aftermath: Mitt Romney Wins All-Important BS Contest
Matthew Rothschild: Joblessness Goes Down, GOP Goes Apoplectic
Frances Fox Piven and Lorraine Minnite: Movements Need Politicians—and Vice Versa
Green Groups: We Stand With Those Who Stand Against Tar Sands Pipeline: An Open Letter
Bob Herbert: For Obama, No More Excuses
Mirza Shahzad Akbar: The Folly of Drone Attacks and US Strategy
Rev. John Dear: On the Killing of 8 Afghan Women
Jennifer Gibson: Living with Death by Drone
Robert Scheer: Sigh No More: Obama, Romney Leave No Room to Argue
Elizabeth Ben-Ishai: Breastfeeding Moms Boot Nestlé from Maternity Wards
Hannah Stone: Honduras ‘Model City’ Plan in the Spotlight
John Buell: Republicans, Democrats, and Jobs
Amanda Eckerson: Ahead of Venezuela Election, Social Movements Affirm Bolivarian Revolution

Thursday October 4, 2012

Charles Ferguson: America's Duopoly of Money in Politics and Manipulation of Public Opinion
Michael T. Klare: Extreme Energy Means an Extreme Planet
Sandra Steingraber and Kathleen Nolan: No to NY Fracking: 'We Will Not Compromise On the Health of Our Families'
Sarah Byrnes and Thomas Atwood: For Real Change, Conversations Not Debates
Donna Smith: Debate This: I’m 57 and Want Medicare and Social Security for Future Generations
Medea Benjamin: Drones and Revenge: How a Pashtun Man Pursues Justice
Karen Dolan: The Biggest Losers: Big Bird and the American People
Mark Weisbrot: Washington Doesn’t Like Democratic Elections in Venezuela, Because of the Result
George Lakoff: Why Obama Lost the First Debate
Amy Davidson: 7 Chances Obama Missed
Murtaza Hussain: Sanctions Against Iran Are Form of War, Not Alternative to It
Richard Kim: Debate's Worst Performance? PBS' Jim Lehrer
Robert Kuttner: GOP in Florida: Crying Fraud, Then Creating It
Peter Hart: Time Magazine: Obama's Lies Are Worse Because They're More Accurate
Michael Moore: 'No O!': A Twitter Recap

Wednesday October 3, 2012

Sarah Anderson: Democratic Dishonor Roll on Inequality
Robert Reich: Questions Unlikely to be Asked Wednesday Night
John Nichols: More Open Debates Would Make for Better Debates
FAIR: Moderate Debates and Debate Moderators
Jeff Faux: Education Profiteering: Wall Street’s Next Big Thing?
Mark Hertsgaard: 10 Questions for Both Candidates on Energy and the Environment
Mark Weisbrot: On Media Bias in Venezuela
Jim Naureckas: Is Facebook Losing Your Mail in Hopes of Receiving More Bribes?
Ferd Hoefner: Farm Bill Expiration Puts Forward-Thinking Food Policy at Risk
Johnathon Ross: Worse Than War: Deaths from Uninsurance
Chuck Collins: A Voting Guide for the 99 Percent
Richard Schiffman: The 2012 Election's Only Bipartisan Consensus: Not to Talk Climate Change
Tom Engelhardt: When Debate Realities Ignore Realities of Crisis
Shiney Varghese: California Makes History on the Right to Water
Jill Schneiderman: Barry Commoner: A Feminist Environmentalist
Jim Hightower: Organic Subsidiaries Out Parent Conglomerates
Robin Marty: 'Abortions on Women Who Aren't Pregnant' Common Trope of Anti-Choice Movement
Gary Houser: 'Rising to Meet the Tide': A Letter to Obama on Climate Change
Michelle Chen: Foxconn Riot Flashes a Glimpse of China’s Slow-burning Labor Crisis

Tuesday October 2, 2012

Andy Kroll: The Death of the Golden Dream of Higher Education
Dennis Kucinich: Iraq: Ten Years, a Million Lives and Trillions of Dollars Later
Charlie Cray: Barry Commoner: The Greatest Environmentalist of the 20th Century
Glenn Greenwald: The True Reason US Fears Iranian Nukes: They Can Deter US Attacks
Allison Kilkenny: Riot Police Arrest Peaceful Protesters at Rally for Striking Walmart Workers
Michael Winship: Campaign Cash? Local TV News Hits Mute Button
Tim Karr: One Minute of News vs. 162 Minutes of Ads
Bernie Sanders: Cut Deficit, But Not on Backs of Needy
Greg Kaufmann: #TalkPoverty: Thirteen Questions for the First Presidential Debate
Allie Bohm: Documents Obtained by ACLU Shed Light on Other Telecom Surveillance Techniques
Ray McGovern: Silence of the Drones and a March for Peace in Pakistan
Richard Wolff: Big Finance's Pathology Compels the Logic of Socialized Banking
George Lakoff: What to Watch for in the Presidential Debates
Ari Berman: A Recent History of GOP Voter Suppression in Florida

Monday October 1, 2012

Yves Engler: Success in Quebec Speaks to Power of Mass Movements
Paul Buchheit: Seven Deadly American Sins
Mattea Kramer: Tough Talk for America: A Guide to the Presidential Debates You Won’t Hear
Paul Krugman: The Real Referendum
Andrew Simms: 50 Months to Avoid Climate Disaster – and a Change Is in the Air
Zack Kaldveer: $34.4 Million Can’t Seem To Buy Prop 37 Opponents Their Own Facts
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