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An End to the War on Weed?
In These Times - by Nathan Comp - Apr. 12, 2009 (Opinion)
As a medley of border violence, recessionary pressure, international criticism and popular acceptance steadily undermines America’s decades-long effort to eliminate drugs ...
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We Arm the World
In These Times - by Frida Berrigan - Jan. 4, 2009 (Special Report)
In 2007, U.S. foreign military sales agreements totaled more than $32 billion — nearly triple the amount during President Bush’s first full year in office. The Pentagon ...
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It’s not easy becoming green
In These Times - by David Roberts - Dec. 27, 2008 (News Analysis)
Meeting the challenge of global climate change will involve an enormous amount of work — solarizing and retrofitting buildings for energy efficiency, manufacturing electric ...
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What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been
In These Times - by Bill Ayers - Nov. 7, 2008 (Opinion)
Obama has continually been asked to defend something that ought to be at democracy’s heart: the importance of talking to as many people as possible in this complicated and ...
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Why Soldiers Rape
In These Times - by Helen Benedict - Aug. 13, 2008 (Special Report)
the attention always focuses on the women: where they were when assaulted, their relations with the assailant, the effects on their mental health and careers, whether they are ...
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McSexist: McCain's War on Women
In These Times - by Kate Sheppard - Jul. 24, 2008 (News Analysis)
Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) campaign and the media would have us believe that herds of disaffected women voters will be stampeding to the Republicans this year because a ...
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Is the Fourth Estate a Fifth Column?
In These Times - by Bill Moyers - Jul. 11, 2008 (Opinion)
Sadly, in many respects, the Fourth Estate has become the fifth column of democracy, colluding with the powers that be in a culture of deception that subverts the thing most ...
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Dismantling the Myth of McCain
In These Times - by David Moberg - Jun. 19, 2008 (Opinion)
McCain's strength stems from his media-fostered image as a straight-talking maverick reformer and former prisoner of war.
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Killer Credit
In These Times - by Adam Doster - Jan. 29, 2008 (Special Report)
Like mortgages, credit card debt is often carved up and sold on global debt markets as securities. Since borrowers generally pay back what they owe, that debt has been ...
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Empires Architecture
In These Times - by Allen McDuffee - Jan. 2, 2008 (News Report)
Panic shot through the State Department and White House earlier this summer when the American architecture firm Berger Devine Yaeger posted computer-generated images and ...
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Shilling on the Corporate Dollar
In These Times - by Art Levine - May. 31, 2009 (Opinion)
Testifying before the Senate labor and health committee hearing in March, economist Anne Layne-Farrar of the corporate consulting firm LECG warned about the horrendous impact ...
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Key Dems Back Public Option
In These Times - by Editor - Apr. 1, 2009 (News Report)
If AHSA became law, it would create a federal health insurance system administered by the states. The insurance program would give patients an unlimited choice of doctors and ...
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Moving Forward Without Dogma
In These Times - by Ken Brociner - Jan. 25, 2009 (Opinion)
Despite the severity of the current economic crisis, the morale of the progressive movement remains sky high. Liberals, progressives and leftists worked their tails off to ...
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How Obama Can Fix The Other Disaster in Bush's Legacy: The War on Workers
In These Times - by Art Levine - Jan. 5, 2009 (Comment)
On virtually every front, the Labor Department that was supposed to protect workers’ lives and paychecks did practically nothing to stop 6,000 workers from being killed on ...
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Americans Unwilling to Face Reality
In These Times - by John R. MacArthur - Oct. 19, 2008 (Opinion)
It’s not as though no one saw it coming. Here’s the economist Michael Hudson, writing in the May 2006 issue of Harper’s magazine: “The reality is that, although home ...
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The $700 Billion Questions
In These Times - by David Sirota - Sep. 22, 2008 (Opinion)
Whether the bill passes or not, the drafting of it--even the mere thinking of it--is the single most clear sign that all of the major tenets of American democracy are on the ...
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Don't Tase Me, GOP
In These Times - by Jacob Wheeler - Aug. 5, 2008 (News Report)
The St. Paul Police Department is arming itself with Tasers. Local activists and media say that the department ordered 230 stun guns in late February -- adding to the 140 ...
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The Dark Side of the Toyota Prius
In These Times - by Paul Abowd - Jul. 16, 2008 (News Report)
The report alleges that Toyota exploits guest workers, mostly shipped in from China and Vietnam. According to the NLC, these workers are "stripped of their passports and often ...
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China's Valley of Tears
In These Times - by Slavoj Zizek - Dec. 4, 2007 (Special Report)
Modern-day China is not an oriental-despotic distortion of capitalism, but rather the repetition of capitalism's development in Europe itself. In the early modern era, most ...
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Examining the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act
In These Times - by Lindsay Beyerstein - Nov. 1, 2007 (Special Report)
Harman's bill would convene a 10-member national commission to study "violent radicalization" (defined as "the process of adopting or promoting an extremist belief system for ...
Overview
| Media | Magazine, Online |
| Audience | Small audience (10-100K) (English) |
| Scope | National |
| Political Viewpoint | Left |
| Owners | Managers: Joel Bleifuss |
| Story Formats | Special Report (13), Opinion (11), News Report (5), News Analysis (4), Comment (1) |
| Story Authors | Lindsay Beyerstein (3), David Sirota (3), Frida Berrigan (2), David Moberg (2), Art Levine (2), Pat Aufderheide (1), Allen Mcduffee (1), Leah H Nelson (1), Susan J Douglas (1), Conor Kenny (1), Steven F Freeman (1), David Roberts (1), Helen Benedict (1), Editor (1), Ken Brociner (1)... |
| Story Topics | Media and Politics (4), Bush Administration (4), U.S. Congress (3), Presidential Election 2008 (3), U.S. Economy (3), Law Enforcement (3), Money and Politics (3), Department of Defense (3), Human Rights (3), John McCain (3), Obama Administration (2), Finance (2), Domestic Spying (2), Labor (2), Mainstream Media (2)... |
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| Edited By | Ezra Fox |
| Last Edit | Jul 24, 2006 - 5:18 PM PDT |
