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Social Security snow job
January 21, 2005OPINION Winter is here, and in keeping with the season the Republican White House is planning a carefully crafted campaign of obfuscation (i.e., a snow job!) in an effort to convince present and future retirees and...
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Federal campaign laws undermine democracy
January 21, 2005OPINION Over the past four years we have seen a broad progressive movement emerge on a grand scale. Although it did not stop Bush on Nov. 2, this relatively new movement was able to deliver at...
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LETTERS
January 21, 2005What is a moral value? I’d like to thank Stewart Acuff for his opinion piece “Restoring workers’ rights is a moral value.” I don’t speak of it often but everything I do and believe stems from...
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EDITORIALS
January 21, 2005A grotesque inaugural Bush’s second inauguration was an obscene display of what social theorist Thorstein Veblen called “conspicuous consumption” — the flaunting of wealth by the rich to serve their image. Even before thinking about the...
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A failing grade: Charter schools and education reform
January 21, 2005Charter schools are a major aspect of the political right wing’s education reform agenda, which also includes vouchers and privatization. Turning failing schools into charter schools is one of the No Child Left Behind law’s sanctions,...
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