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Medium audience (100-500K) (English)
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National
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Neutral viewpoint
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Harper's Magazine Foundation | nonprofit_organization
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New York, NY, US
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Kaizar Campwala
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Jan 24, 2007 - 1:14 PM PST
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Labor's last stand: The corporate campaign to kill the Employee Free Choice Act
(subscribers only for full article, see link.) THE BUSINESS LOBBY HAS FRAMED ITS OPPOSITION TO EFCA AROUND THE “SECRET BALLOT” AND LABOR “COERCION.” BUT THE CURRENT ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
The Enemy Combatant Canard
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison shared one definition of the term “tyrant”–a ruler who deprived a person of his freedom without operation of law and without ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Yoo for the Defense
I’ve followed John Yoo and his writings with some care for a while now, and I think I finally understand what this is about. Namely, a pending probe by the Justice ...Posted by Norman Farrell -
The Genius of Karl Rove
Democratic strategists are praying that Karl Rove and Rush Limbaugh remain as the guiding lights of the G.O.P.Posted by Norman Farrell -
The Southern Strategy Comes of Age
At the heart of the Rovian calculus was America’s Southland, which he saw as the ideological and political base of the reshaped Republican Party of the age of Bush. But the ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The wrecking crew: How a gang of right-wing con men destroyed Washington and made a killing
Fantastic misgovernment is not an accident, nor is it the work of a few bad individuals. It is the consequence of triumph by a particular philosophy of government, by a ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Elegy For A Rubber Stamp
Long ago in the days before journalists became celebrities, their enterprise was reviled and poorly paid, and it was understood by working newspapermen that the presence of ...Posted by Julian Friedland -
The Murtha Rules: A simple system to win federal money
Congressman John Murtha of Pennsylvania has long been one of the biggest porkbarrelers in Congress, and as the chairman of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee he is ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The Justice Department's truthiness problem
Americans now have more confidence in the integrity and reliability of Post Office employees than they do in federal prosecutors and FBI agents. But is the Justice Department ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
The Misdirection
The questions that the Congressional investigators want answered are fairly simple. Who is responsible for torture policy? What caused it to begin? Exactly how was it pushed ...Posted by Derek Hawkins
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Second Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Arar
The majority, Calabresi charges, “engaged in extraordinary judicial activism.” Its activism was aimed at extricating political actors from a precarious predicament and ...Posted by Ben Ross -
Peering Under the Rock at the C Street “Family”
At C Street, the “totalitarianism of Christ” is advocated, and Hitler, Pol Pot, Osama bin Laden, and Lenin are held out as positive examples of how a politician can ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Jesus killed Mohammed: The crusade for a Christian military
When Sergeant Jeffery Humphrey and his squad of nine men, part of the 1/26 Infantry of the 1st Infantry Division, were assigned to a Special Forces compound in Samarra, he ...Posted by Doug Greer -
Halliburton Settlement Leaves Unsettling Questions
... the Obama Administration are chumps if they sit back and accept the deal the Bush Justice Department concluded for the benefit of Dick Cheney. The whole matter needs to be ...Posted by Norman Farrell -
The $4.7 trillion pyramid
Social Security, formerly the “third rail” of American politics, has now been trod upon, in rather dramatic fashion, by George W. Bush. Given that the maneuver is both ...Posted by Doug Greer -
How to Save Capitalism: Fundamental fixes for a collapsing system (Harper's Magazine)
If the financial debacles of the past decade—the enormous bubbles, the credit collapse and its trillion-dollar consequences—have taught us anything about the American ...Posted by Doug Greer -
Six Questions for David Hendrickson on the Obama Administration, Banana Republics and Foreign Policy
The bailout bill was a colossal mistake and it is based on a false premise: specifically, that we’re facing a liquidity crisis and not an insolvency crisis. Ben Bernanke and ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Vital Strategic Debate at Air Force: What color leather for our comfort capsules?
While elements of the Air Force brass were bickering about color coordination for their new comfort capsules, troops have sat for hours on long flights in mangled seats and on ...Posted by Norman Farrell -
Six Questions for Jane Mayer, Author of The Dark Side
We learn the details on the torture techniques and the drama behind the fierce and lingering struggle within the administration over torture, and we learn that many within the ...Posted by Norman Farrell -
Numbers Racket: Why the economy is worse than we know
If Washington's harping on weapons of mass destruction was essential to buoy public support for the invasion of Iraq, the use of deceptive statistics has played its own vital ...Posted by Ben Ross
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Scott Horton (53), Ken Silverstein (35), Michael Hudson (2), Mr Fish (2), Lewis H Lapham (1), Kevin Phillips (1), Chris C Mooney Et Al (1), Rachel Maddow (1), Jeff Sharlet (1), Sebastian Jones (1), Project On Government Oversight (1), Paul Ford (1), Chalmers Johnson (1), Thomas Frank (1)
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