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Chief Justice Roberts Saves the Day
Chief Justice Roberts saves the day
Angers the Right that he voted this way
Josh Fox’s New Fracking Gem
If ever an online video should go viral, it is Gasland director Josh Fox’s vital new 18-minute gem, The Sky Is Pink.
The Lineup: Week of June 25-July 1, 2012
Robert Alvarez warns that the nation’s nuclear safety policies fall short of what’s needed
The Tea Party Shtick
Not too long ago, Americans only dressed up in George Washington wigs and tri-corner hats on the Fourth of July. But then the tea party came along. Colonial garb started turning up at rallies all year around.
The Robin Hood Tax
I spent 22 years in the financial services business. Beginning in the 1980s, I worked at exchanges where we traded everything from futures on soybeans to shares of stock to options on interest rates. During these boom years for the U.S. and global financial markets, traders and Wall Street executives earned fortunes.
A Radioactive Conflict of Interest
The U.S. government is going out of its way to downplay radiation hazards in the aftermath of one of the world’s worst nuclear accidents.
Big Cable’s Plan to Lock Down Your Future
Television is at a crossroads. There are two paths to choose from and two destinies for television viewers: one better, the other far worse. The path taken will have lasting political consequences.
One Weak Domino
The stock market keeps going up and down like a yo-yo. I thought you’d like to know why. It’s Greece.
Afghanistan’s Corrupt Oligarchy
Our national leaders’ rationale for investing so much money and so many boots on the ground in that awful war in Afghanistan was that we’d leave behind a stable, popular government to assure peace and prosperity for all.
Super Highway Robbery
