Articles of Interest
May 19, 2012, 4:00am

By Nancy L. Cohen, Rolling Stone

Mitt Romney wants you to know that he and his party are “extraordinarily pro-woman” – “pro-opportunity for women, pro-moms, pro-working moms, pro-working women,” as he put it on Fox News the other night. This … Read more »

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May 19, 2012, 4:00am

By Amanda Peterson Beadle, ThinkProgress

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) signed a bill yesterday that will allow pharmacists in the state to refuse to fill a prescription they think could be used to induce abortion. But since the “conscience” measure … Read more »

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May 17, 2012, 5:00am

By Akio Matsumura, Finding the Missing Link

The highly radioactive spent fuel assemblies at the Fukushima-Daiichi power plants present a clear threat to the people of Japan and the world. Reactor 4 and the nearby common spent fuel pool contain … Read more »

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May 16, 2012, 2:00am

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May 15, 2012, 2:00am

Here’s an eye-opening explanation of how people make money on private equity (Romney etc.).
 

 
 
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May 11, 2012, 4:00am

By Robert Reich.

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., the nation’s largest bank, whose chief executive, Jamie Dimon, has lead Wall Street’s war against regulation, announced Thursday it had lost $2 billion in trades over the past six weeks and could … Read more »

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May 11, 2012, 4:00am

By PAUL KRUGMAN – New York Times.

A few days ago, I read an authoritative-sounding paper in The American Economic Review, one of the leading journals in the field, arguing at length that the nation’s high unemployment rate had deep … Read more »

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May 11, 2012, 4:00am

By Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian UK

A network of ultra-conservative groups is ramping up an offensive on multiple fronts to turn the American public against wind farms and Barack Obama’s energy agenda.

A number of rightwing organisations, including Americans for Prosperity, … Read more »

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May 08, 2012, 6:00am

In a new book, End This Depression Now!, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman says the current economic problems can be fixed both more easily and more quickly than anyone imagines. But politicians’ desire to slash spending is deeply destructive, and … Read more »

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May 07, 2012, 4:00am

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