Opinion
15 years after welfare “deform”
August 25, 2011Aided by a Republican Congress and bitterly divided Democratic Party, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act.
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It’s complicated: President Obama and mass movement building
August 25, 2011The building of a mass movement on the scale of the 1930s or 1960s is a complicated process, despite the many-sided problems today's movement has the potential to eclipse them.
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Monument to freedom
August 25, 2011The idea of a memorial to Dr. King was first proposed 27 years ago. His monument is the first on the National Mall not dedicated to a president.
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The Beer Evolution: New yeast discovered in Patagonian forest
August 24, 2011Beer has a history of working-class identity and is now experiencing a revolution of its own, on the microbiological level.
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Libya: NATO sets dangerous precedent
August 24, 2011Rebel troops have broken through to Tripoli, the Libyan capital. The NATO intervention has been decisive, and that should trouble us.
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