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Black Unemployment 50 Years After the March on Washington 27 Aug 2013 | 08:21 pm
The 1963 March on Washington was billed as a march for “Jobs and Freedom.” In the first installment of the Web series The March @50, filmmaker Shukree Tilghman asks if America has delivered on the mar...
A Hurricane by Any Other Name is Still… 27 Aug 2013 | 06:46 pm
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) identifies storms using a rotating list of first names. This year, for example, we could be in for a Hurricane Pablo, Rebekah or Sebastien. If these storms ...
Pundits Say Syrian “Intervention” Won’t End Well, Push for War Anyway 27 Aug 2013 | 03:00 am
In this photo taken on a government organized media tour, a Syrian army soldier walks on a street in the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. (AP Photo) As we barrel toward...
What Economic Sleuths Can Tell Us About Our Corrupt Politics 27 Aug 2013 | 02:27 am
Michael Berman uses a magnifying glass to find dividend yielding stocks as he looks over one of his investment journals in his home in Cranberry, Pa. Friday, Oct. 24, 2008. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) ...
Tar Sands Drones are on Their Way 27 Aug 2013 | 01:39 am
This post originally appeared on In These Times. An oil pipeline under construction in Sumner, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) North American energy companies are planning to use drones to monitor ...
Questions for President Obama — Before He Pulls the Trigger on Syria 27 Aug 2013 | 01:34 am
A Syrian man mourns over a dead body after an alleged poisonous gas attack fired by regime forces, according to activists, in Douma town, Damascus, Syria, Aug. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Media Office Of Doum...
The Gulf Coast Cleanup, BP and the Revolving Door 24 Aug 2013 | 08:30 pm
This week on the show, author Mark Leibovich uses the Deepwater Horizon oil spill as a prime example of how disasters get “managed” in Washington. He tells Bill how, while the oil was still spilling, ...
Going Multiracial 24 Aug 2013 | 06:58 pm
Rinku Sen The Civil Rights Movement generated a racial landscape that is infinitely more complex than the planners of the March on Washington likely predicted. I owe my own presence here to the anti-...
Book Excerpt: The Evolution of “This Town” 23 Aug 2013 | 11:35 pm
A hundred pages into his study of Washington’s elite “Club,” Mark Leibovich pauses to “proffer a brief tutorial on the recent history of the Washington entourage.” This excerpt recounts the evolution ...
’90 Percent of Workers Aren’t Getting Bupkis’ 23 Aug 2013 | 11:33 pm
We’re proud to collaborate with The Nation in sharing insightful journalism related to income inequality in America. The following post appeared first in Nation contributor Greg Kaufmann’s “This Week ...
