It is not hyperbole to say that the world’s richest man has now illegally seized control of America’s checkbook and the entire federal workforce.
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35,000 Say to An Audience of One: "No Keystone XL"
"The first thing that the pipeline runs over is the credibility of the president of the United States," said former White House green jobs czar Van Jones.
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Incomes Flat in Recovery, but Not for the 1%
New data show uneven benefits from the economic recovery of 2010-11, with a big rise for the highest earners and little change for others.
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Student Issues, Student Power: Whose Future? Our Future!
As U.S. student activism remains strikingly dormant and fragmented, campus organizers are grappling to find the means to mobilize their peers into movements large enough to effect change.
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Pricing the Carbon: Senators Boxer and Sanders Introduce New Climate Legislation
The new bill, which is the first since cap and trade failed to pass the Senate in 2009, would put a $20/ton fee on carbon, raising trillions of dollars to offset impacts on consumers and create new investment in renewable energy sources.
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Memo from Virginia: Just Saying No to Drones
In the absence of state or federal laws, localities around the United States are proceeding to put unmanned aerial vehicles in our skies as they see fit. In Charlottesville, Virginia, residents hoping to change that.
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Rationalizing Drone Attacks Hits New Low
Should we replace E Pluribus Unum with We Don't Kill as Many Children as Measles?
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Occupy Neoliberalism: Mad as Hell and Not Going to Take It Anymore
Once people come to see that there is less to lose by acting, they are ready to be mobilized.
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The Tyranny - and Possibilities - of Political Economy
There was a time when we economists steered clear of politics. Then some of us got ambitious.
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The .03% Solution
How a tiny tax on financial transactions could raise revenue and help the capital markets.
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Exposed: Photos Reveal "Daylight" in Faulty Welding on Keystone Pipeline
Members of the Tar Sands Blockade have revealed that they have photographic evidence showing faulty welds inside a mile-long segment of the Keystone XL pipeline currently under construction near Winona, East Texas.
