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The President's best course of action is to keep the pressure up on Big Oil by going all in on a windfall profits tax.

It’s corporate greed and the GOP will only make that worse.

A Canadian Tradition Taken to New Extremes

Some of the power of voting that doesn’t often get shared: voting can directly impact some of those things that you see whether it’s a school shooting, gun violence, people dying on the border—voting can actually make that difference in those issues.

I hope those who cheer Lula’s victory pay attention to the source of his success. The route to a greener and fairer future is not through focus groups, it is through mobilisation of a multi-racial working-class, galvanised by the prospect of a government bold enough to act.

This cautiously drafted letter said we need a component of policy in Ukraine that includes a cease-fire and diplomacy. The outrage that greeted this approach shows how much work is needed to stop the control militarism has on our foreign policy.

As “now it can be told” theater, TimeLine’s Chicago premiere, the second coming of this angry work, works equally well as an exercise in conspiracy-theory paranoia, journalistic sleuthing at its most dangerous, and a cumulative plea for transparency in foreign policy, banking, and law enforcement (Edward Snowden anyone?).

Two thousand telecommunications workers walked off their jobs in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine on October 17 after FairPoint Communications imposed its final bargaining table proposal.

Does everyone deserve a second chance?

Open letter says claims made for brain games are not based on sound evidence and playing them may have the opposite effect