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Welcoming Overdue Mercury Standards
As a mother with a toddler, I’m always trying to protect my daughter. From choking hazards to toxic household chemicals, from busy streets to steep stairs, there are a lot of dangers that keep us parents on our toes. Unfortunately, there are some toxins our children get exposed to before they are even born.
Tax Wall Street to Heal America
National Nurses United, America’s largest union of RNs, is sounding an alarm.
We’ve organized rallies in New York, Boston, Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, and Las Vegas, as well as in Minnesota, Michigan, Texas, Florida, and other states and cities. We’ve held demonstrations at 60 congressional field offices. And we’ve joined the Occupy Together movement as first aid volunteers in more than a dozen sites, including on Wall Street, where it all started.
The Great Local News Heist
If you turn on your local evening news, you may not notice anything out of the ordinary. But if you change the channel, you’ll think you’ve entered a parallel universe.
GOP Debates are More Entertaining than GOP Policies
I was out of the country for a couple of weeks and came back to be greeted by yet another Republican presidential debate. I was so pleased.
Paulson’s Plaintive Plea
Who’s the most befuddled Wall Streeter of all? The richest guy on the Street.
Half-Full Champagne Flute
Prison Nation
The United States has more citizens behind bars, per capita, than any other nation. No, this quirk doesn’t reflect an especially felonious gene in our national DNA. Rather, it exposes embarrassing shortfalls in our public policy.
The Lineup: Week of Oct. 24-30, 2011
William A. Collins and Khalil Bendib offer their takes on Occupy Wall Street, while Donald Kaul and Phyllis Bennis address the big news out of Libya.
What’s Next for U.S.-Libyan Relations?
After Muammar Gaddafi’s demise, the future of Libya’s relationship with the United States remains uncertain.
Measuring Progress
Tent cities and shacks sprung up on empty lots across the country. Food lines at soup kitchens wrapped around city blocks. Unemployment soared to 25 percent. Farmers watched helplessly as crop prices plummeted, then lost their land. The evidence was clear, yet at the height of the Great Depression, Congress lacked the tools to accurately measure just how the economy as a whole was faring. With no commonly accepted national income data, they had no guideposts upon which to base sound economic policy.
