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It’s worth noting that this continued antibiotic use, and continued and rising appearance of resistant bacteria on meat, is happening as the FDA has abandoned attempting to regulate livestock producers’ use of antibiotics, and has switched to a voluntary approach. Given the trend, I think it’s worth asking how well that voluntary approach is going to work.

Dramatic cuts in tax rates have not led to an acceleration in economic growth, investment, or productivity.

On Ditching the Geithner doctrine

The burgeoning popular literature about how to navigate the “new old age”

The extraordinary rise in wealth and power of the very rich during this era of unregulated greed

What are the pretexts, the deeper logic of the French Malian intervention?

REWIND - A Week of Quotes and Cartoons

Under legislation proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), corporations would pay U.S. taxes on their offshore profits as they are earned. The legislation would take away the tax incentives for corporations to move jobs offshore or to shift profits offshore because the U.S. would tax their profits no matter where they are generated.

Hysteria, aggression and gerrymandering are a fading demographic's last hope to maintain political control.

A Florida coalition is working to amend the Florida state constitution so that it guarantees voting accessibility for all citizens—a state-level voting rights act. “We’re focusing on legislation that grants an explicit right to vote in Florida,” says Katherine Culliton-González. “It would aim at big picture issues and make voting a fundamental right so no election law changes could happen that would take us back in time.”