Why We Fight

The Deafening Silence About the War in the Deficit Debate

Dan Kovalik | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dan Kovalik

There is a lot of talk on Capitol Hill right now about the need to balance the federal budget. What is largely absent from this debate is any discussion of the wars -- and its affect on poor and working people.

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HuffPost Review: Freakonomics

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marshall Fine

As anthology films go, Freakonomics is an entertaining -- if occasionally scattershot -- documentary. But then, that was the nature of the book by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, upon which the film was based.

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The Straight Talk Train Wreck

Eugene Jarecki | Posted 05.25.2011

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Eugene Jarecki

2008-10-30-mccainpull.jpg I'm not one to kick a man when he's down, but I feel compelled to share a cautionary tale of my own firsthand experience with the Straight-Talk Express. That hell-bent freight train rolled over me a couple years ago and I haven't felt the same since.

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Peggy's Confusion: Some "Political Bullsh*t" About John McCain

Eugene Jarecki | Posted 05.25.2011

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Eugene Jarecki

When it serves him politically to condemn Halliburton's abuses, he takes that view. When he's running for president and seeking to establish his bonafides with the Republican base, a different John McCain emerges.

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