On August 31, 2005, when the first corpses began floating down the Lower 7th Ward’s byways and George W. Bush was still enjoying a Crawford vacation, blogger Kevin Drum, as is so often the case, was first across the post … Read more »
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The Electoral College should be abolished, but there is a right way to do it and a wrong way.
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According to the White House’s official statement, in fact, this divergence between the vast majority of Americans and the wealthiest two tenths of one percent “is not a very interesting story.”
Do you, like me, live in one of those states where electricity has been deregulated and your utility rates have skyrocketed?
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A new documentary offers a portrait of combat and its aftermath that bears no relation to the sanitized version of war that often comes from politicians and the news media.
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DiCaprio’s 11th Hour is a powerful documentary that makes the case that our way of life is totally at odds with the sustainability of our planet.
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There was less sea ice in the Arctic on Friday than ever before on record, and the melting is continuing, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported.
A series of new studies indicate that we’re cooking our favorite planet more quickly than experts had expected.
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The number of taxpayer-paid private contractors in Iraq, the number of bullets fired for each insurgent killed, the percentage of amputations performed on U.S. war-wounded: a compilation of numbers puts Iraq into perspective.
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