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Republicans are attacking women’s rights in four broad areas.

The Campaign Against Women - NYTimes.com

1 week ago

Had the filibuster not applied, we would have a market-based system to control carbon emissions, limiting the damage from global warming, vitalizing the clean technology sector, and challenging other large polluters like China and India to do the same. The new health care law would have a public option. Children of undocumented immigrants who served two years in the military or went to college could become US citizens. Women paid less than their male colleagues would have broader legal recourse against their employers. Billionaires would not be able to manipulate the political system from behind a veil of anonymity.

Taking on the F-word - Boston.com

1 week ago

Over the years, this balanced wisdom was lost. Leaders today do not believe their job is to restrain popular will. A gigantic polling apparatus has developed to help leaders anticipate and respond to popular whims. Democratic politicians adopt the mind-set of marketing executives. The customer is always right.

The Age of Innocence - NYTimes.com

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Arthur’s Transformation: Never Give Up

Dollar for dollar, government spending stimulates the economy more than tax cuts. It is simply a fallacy to say that we cannot afford increased government spending.

The Crisis of Big Science by Steven Weinberg | The New York Review of Books

1 month ago

In the United States an estimated 90 percent of our historic fruit and vegetable varieties have vanished.

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If you are building a social media strategy today, you absolutely need to address Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Tumblr.

Dispersion and Entropy In Social Media

3 months ago

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics, is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

Theodore Roosevelt 1912

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The OECD ranks the United States roughly on a level with Mexico, Chile, and Turkey in overall poverty, child poverty, and health care.

What Future for Occupy Wall Street?

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