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Let’s resist herbicide-resistant crops

by Margot McMillen Other Words May 21, 2012

A Pioneer seed saleswoman introduced the first genetically modified crop to my central Missouri county in the winter of 1996 at a University Extension Soils and Crop Council meeting. ...

Plutocracy, paralysis, perplexity

by Paul Krugman New York Times May 3, 2012

Before the Great Recession, I would sometimes give public lectures in which I would talk about rising inequality, making the point that the ...

Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem

by Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein Washington Post April 27, 2012

Rep. Allen West, a Florida Republican, was recently captured on video asserting that there are “78 to 81” Democrats in Congress who are members of the Communist Party....

Republicans’ budgets imply deep cuts in programs helping the poor

by Ezra Klein Washington Post April 10, 2012

That’s left them with one option: deep cuts to programs for the poor. That’s what you see in House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s budget....

To make a lot of money, be a crony in crony capitalism

by Steven M. Davidoff New York Times April 4, 2012

If you want to make billions of dollars from deal-making, don’t head to Wall Street....

Better public schools require a stronger safety net. School segregation by class is the norm in the United States

by William A. Collins OtherWords March 26, 2012

Many American kids are getting a fine education these days, but plenty more are stuck with lousy schools. This disparity shouldn’t come as a shock, because that’s the way our society is designed.Given that nearly half of public-school funding is derived from local property tax revenue, rich kids...

The first black president has made it harder to talk about race in America

by Reniqua Allen Washington Post March 23, 2012

A few weeks ago, I was standing outside a posh bar on the Lower East Side of Manhattan with my friends of almost two decades. ...

Have we really achieved goal one of the Millennium Development Goals?

by Bill Abrams TrickleUp March 15, 2012

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Timing of Stop Kony campaign suspicious

by Steve Fake Foreign Policy In Focus March 12, 2012

As anyone who regularly utilizes the mixed blessing that is social media now knows, an internet campaign to “#stopkony” has exploded in popularity within the last few days....

Starving Iran won’t free it

by Hooman Majd New York Times March 2, 2012

THERE’S an old saying, attributed to the British Foreign Office in colonial days: “Keep the Persians hungry, and the Arabs fat.” ...

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