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Absent an extremely large injection of government funding or further life extensions, the reactors currently operating are going to end their licensed lifetimes between now and the late 2050s. They will become part of an economics-driven US nuclear phase-out a couple of decades behind the government-led nuclear exit in Germany.

There isn't any evidence that the U.S., or other countries that borrow in currencies they control, face some debt tipping point after which borrowing costs spiral out of control. There isn't even much evidence this is true of Europe's troubled economies. Borrowing costs fell for the PIIGS in 2012 (one year after Greenlaw & Co.'s sample ended), not because those countries reduced their debt burdens, but because the ECB promised to do "whatever it takes" to save the euro.

No nation should own nuclear arms – not Iran, not North Korea, and not their critics who take the moral high ground.

Students organizing for climate justice on campuses today are drawing connections between the environment and social issues like debt, racism, and immigration.

Some analysts said the move appeared designed in part to take advantage of the ongoing chaos inside Syria.

Rewind - March 3-9, 2013

The Keystone Pipeline, the Socialist Left, the GOP and the Sequester