Dan Margolis
LATEST ARTICLES BY Dan Margolis
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U.S.
Atheists know more about religion than believers says poll
September 30, 2010A study released September 28 by the Pew Research center says atheists and agnostics know more about the world's religious faiths than believers.
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Labor
Trumka, panel debate working-class anger and elections
September 28, 2010"There is a class war going on in this country," AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka said during a September 24 panel discussion at the Cooper Union, "and my class is losing. We've got to turn that around."
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U.S.
Obama discusses elections with student journalists
September 28, 2010Today's young people, the so-called "Lost Generation," is going to be just fine, says President Barack Obama-but only if the progressive reforms made in the past two years are defended from the Republicans-and expanded upon.
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World
At UN, Obama highlights break with Bush policies
September 23, 2010Obama's boldest statements came in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, when he dismissed "cynics" who say a just peace is impossible.
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Labor
Outside the box: workers’ centers give labor a boost
September 23, 2010Workers' centers, or non-traditional unions, have scored significant victories lately and offer important new ways of building the labor movement.
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Opinion
Tea party trying to take New York with a baseball bat
September 22, 2010NEW YORK - All bets are off as "Crazy Carl" Paladino, an extreme right tea party candidate, won the Republican nomination for governor last week.
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Opinion
NY primaries fuel hope for fall elections
September 20, 2010While media pundits have been predicting doom for progressives in the November elections, last week's primaries here showed a different trend.
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Labor
Mott’s workers OK new contract
September 14, 2010In the nearly four-month-long strike a small group of workers faced off against the corporate behemoth Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, and achieved what appears to be an important victory.
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