May 02 2014
What happened to the middle class? By Elizabeth Warren, 10:16 AM EDT, Thu May 1, 2014 A great crack in America’s middle class came to light recently: While our country continues to lead the world as the richest nation, our middle class, once the most affluent in the world, has fallen behind. According to …
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Apr 26 2014
Fox News’ new laughingstock: Cliven Bundy — and Stephen Colbert — will destroy Sean Hannity By Joan Walsh, Friday, Apr 25, 2014 11:10 AM CDT I’ll admit, this brilliant Stephen Colbert piece made me wonder: Could Sean Hannity’s detestable role in making Cliven Bundy a right-wing folk hero, and his lingering embrace of Bundy …
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Apr 16 2014
Can you spot Adolf Hitler in this class of 10 year-olds? Here’s a hint: think about the type of can-do assertive personality we Americans idolize in our athletes, businessmen, and politicians… Photograph from the exhibition catalog: Hans-Ulrich Thamer and Simone Erpel. “Hitler und die Deutschen: Volksgemein- schaft und Verbrechen”. Sandstein Verlag, im Auftrag der …
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Mar 07 2014
Here Are 5 Infuriating Examples of Facts Making People Dumber By Chris Mooney, Wed Mar. 5, 2014 3:00 AM GMT On Monday, I reported on the latest study to take a bite out of the idea of human rationality. In a paper just published in Pediatrics, Brendan Nyhan of Dartmouth University and his …
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Mar 03 2014
Putin’s ‘Holy Russia’ Goes to War By Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, 03/02/2014 7:52 pm EST What do you get when you combine ultra-nationalist religious and political conservatism along with homophobia and sexism? Some might say you get the Tea Party in the United States, but today that is the toxic mix that is …
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Mar 03 2014
Don’t listen to Obama’s Ukraine critics: he’s not ‘losing’ – and it’s not his fight By Michael Cohen, Monday 3 March 2014 12.19 EST In the days since Vladimir Putin sent Russian troops into the Crimea, it has been amateur hour back in Washington. I don’t mean Barack Obama. He’s doing pretty much everything …
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Feb 23 2014
Pluralism was once the hallmark of the Arab world, so the exodus of Christians from the Middle East is painful to one Islamic scholar By Robert Fisk, Sunday 23 February 2014 Tarif Khalidi is a big, bearded bear of a man, the kind you would always choose to play Father Christmas, or perhaps a …
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