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by | May 1, 2008
President Bush's surge was supposed to bring stability and political progress to Iraq and allow for a significant U.S. troop withdrawal; it has failed. The troops have surged in and by the time they surge out, at best, we're stuck back where we started. The most critical foreign policy decisions that the next president will make will deal with an exit strategy. After a number of days of testimony before Congress from Pentagon brass and military experts, it's clear that we're out of good options.
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by | January 1, 2008
In 2005 Judge John E. Jones III, a Bush appointee to the federal bench in Pennsylvania, ruled that biblical creationism (in the guise of "intelligent design") could not be taught in public school science classes. Two years after that ruling, the Christian conservatives are back, this time in Texas. Lauri Lebo, who covered the trial, looks at the fight getting under way and its implications for schools around the country.read article »
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by | April 15, 2008
Wondering about the bespectacled old white guy on the campaign plane with Senator John McCain? Former Texas senator Phil Gramm is McCain's economic brain, doing much of the policy thinking in regard to that subject for the presumptive Republican nominee. If most of the public has forgotten Gramm, Wall Street hasn't. As chair of the Senate Banking Committee, Senator Gramm pushed through sweeping deregulation of the financial industry that made much of today's economic crisis possible.read article »
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by | April 1, 2008
John McCain needed an evangelical to embrace him and send a message to the Christian right that he will do their bidding, even if he's not quite one of them. He settled on End-Timer John Hagee. The Rev. Hagee's dangerous teachings on Israel, the Catholic Church and war with Iran place him on the fringe of American political and religious thought. But Hagee and his multimillion-dollar evangelical empire are deeply plugged into the Republican party. GOP candidates have long sought his blessing.read article » |
by | March 15, 2008
"Long live the worker-shareholder-voter alliance!" may sound odd as a revolutionary slogan, but it could be truly subversive. More Americans own shares in corporations than ever before, whether directly or though mutual funds and pensions. But CEOs have consolidated power in corporate suites and on Capitol Hill, both to ensure their lavish pay deals and to avoid taxes. Ian Williams argues that restoring government accountability goes hand in hand with reclaiming boardrooms from imperial CEOs.read article » |
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by | March 1, 2008
Our economy is contracting, the Treasury is running huge deficits, and Bush refuses to raise taxes to pay for two wars that will cost future generations untold billions. Meanwhile the administration is pushing a military budget that outstrips the combined defense expenditures of all the other countries in the world. The nominal price tag for 2009 is $515.4 billion, but when all the add-ons are taken into account, the figure tops three-quarters of a trillion dollars.read article »
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by | September 15, 2007
On the most basic tactical level, America has been defeated in Iraq because it cannot effectively counter the defining weapon of the war: the roadside bomb, known by its now-familiar acronym, the IED. Robert Bryce exposes the Pentagon's multibillion-dollar boondoggle program of deploying thousands of massive, heavily armored "IED-resistant" vehicles to Iraq that experts say will ultimately do more harm for our troops than good.read article »
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