All Views Articles for 2013-06-21
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Caroline Fraser Megadrought in US Southwest: A Bad Omen for Forests Globally Scientists studying a prolonged and severe drought in the southwestern U.S. say that extensive damage done to trees in that region portends what lies in store as other forests worldwide face rising temperatures, diminished rainfall, and devastating fires. Read more |
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Greg Kaufmann The Older Americans Act and US Seniors Honoring our grandparents, our elders—in these divisive times, at least we hold this value in common, right? As children, we dutifully sat through long visits or lectures from older relatives,... Read more |
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Nan Aron Another Brick in the Wall: Supreme Court Shields Corporations From the Law (As Usual) Brick by brick, a wall of protection is being erected around large, powerful corporations to ensure that they never have to be held accountable for their actions or inconvenienced by the legal system... Read more |
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Gary Younge Is Obama Worse Than Bush? That's Beside the Point Obama's transformation from national security dove to hawk is the norm: any president is captive to America's imperial power Read more |
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Roman Collins, Laura Bonham Lochnerized: Corporations have Constitutional Rights. Unions? Not So Much When judicial rulings create law, it’s commonly known as judicial activism." Lochnerizing " is when the courts invalidate democratically enacted laws while granting corporations constitutional rights... Read more |
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Ralph Nader Corporatizing National Security: What It Means Privacy is a sacred word to many Americans, as demonstrated by the recent uproar over the brazen invasion of it by the Patriot Act-enabled National Security Agency (NSA). The information about... Read more |
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Sarah Jaffe When There’s a Fee to Get Your Pay In the years since the financial crisis struck in 2008, it’s often been pointed out that gains for bankers have gone hand in hand with losses for workers. Read more |
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David Sirota Humanity's Oldest Story This is a tale of two presidents — the one we hope we have and the one we actually have. Read more |
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Matt Stannard Why Cities Should Use Public Banks Instead of Big Banks Of all the public entities that have fallen victim to the big bank-induced economic downturn, cities have the most compelling stories of being burned. If “all politics is local,” this is even more... Read more |
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Dan Schneider School Data Profiteering Data-collecting software is riling privacy and education activists. Read more |