All Views Articles for 2013-04-01
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Bill McKibben The Methane Beneath Our Feet Insouciant New Yorkers—here is another pending disaster to shrug off with characteristic brio! There is a huge, ongoing gas leak beneath your very feet. Read more |
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Abby Rapoport The People’s Bank: Deep-Red North Dakota's Populist Bright Spot When the financial crisis struck in 2008, nearly every state legislature was left contending with massive revenue shortfalls. Every state legislature, that is, except North Dakota’s. In 2009, while... Read more |
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Valerie Strauss Atlanta Test Cheating: Tip of the Iceberg? It would be easy to think that the Atlanta cheating scandal by adults on standardized tests is the worst we have seen, given last week’s startling indictment against former Atlanta schools... Read more |
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Robert Kuttner Looking Backwards at the Democrat's 2014 Implosion What could happen if Democrats put deficits first, and the economy second Read more |
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Anna Lappé My Coke Rewards, Pepsi Refresh, and the Rise of “Philanthro-Marketing” In the summer of 2010, Robert DuBois and Aaron Zueck headed out on a 100 day bike trip across the country to document the thriving local foods movement. In the YouTube video of this “potluck across... Read more |
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Anthony Swift Arkansas' Pegasus Pipeline Spill Exposes Dramatic Risks of Tar Sands Read more |
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Norman Solomon An Outpouring of Love and Support for Bradley Manning to Receive the Nobel Peace Prize During the last week of March, more than 30,000 people signed a petition urging the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Bradley Manning. While the numbers continue to mount on... Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Treason of Intellectuals The rewriting of history by the power elite was painfully evident as the nation marked the 10th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. Some claimed they had opposed the war when they had not... Read more |
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Paul Buchheit Modern Capitalism's Hall of Hypocrisy Capitalist greed is splitting our country in two. But rather than look objectively at their failures, many of those responsible have been hypocritical, portraying themselves as advocates of freedom... Read more |