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Christian Parenti, LGBT Youth Behind Bars & Katrina vanden Heuvel
July 6, 2010If the United States government is the largest energy consumer in the world, asks Nation contributing editor Christian Parenti, why doesn't it use its massive buying power to support real green, clean energy technologies--instead of subsidizing the catastrophic failures of oil giants like BP?Katrina vanden Heuvel: Nation at Risk of Ignoring Jobs Crisis
July 6, 2010The false apostles of austerity believe that imposing suffering on working people--and the most vulnerable among us--is how you show leadership in tough times. They are cowards, not leaders.Bernie Sanders, Drones and War, and FauxFeminists
June 10, 2010"We have to deal with the deficit in a progressive way," says Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Instead of cutting services in the name of some myth of austerity, Sanders suggests cutting tax loopholes and subsidies to oil companies in a new bill he just put forth in the Senate. The money we take in making oil companies pay their fair share could pay for extending unemployment benefits and health care.The F Word: The Pain Of FauxFeminist Populism
June 10, 2010"I feel your pain" -- how many times are we going to hear that between now and the midterm elections? Republicans and Democrats all know that the economy weighs first on people's minds, and they all pay lip service at least to the idea of doing something for Main Street. What's ahead -- months of millionaires making pledges?
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