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AlterNet 87 comments 162 likes 15 hours ago
Hedges is, as usual, thoughtful, insightful and largely correct, but I dispute his first sentence, "When civilizations start to die they go insane." He has reversed the order, and cause and effect. We can roughly date the steep portion of our decline to the Reagan years, when we collectively bought ...
Mother Jones 16 comments 9 likes 1 hour ago
I agree; not an accurate headline. We have all seen and heard public officials slap their names and faces on things that they had less to do with than President Obama did here. For good or ill, however, requiring that the law be cited is not the same thing as ...
The Atlantic 310 comments 1795 likes 3 days ago
Thank you so much for this. None of the single mothers I know are single mothers by choice. It's nice to hear women applauded for taking responsibility for raising their children rather than being vilified because their men chose not to stick around.
AlterNet 73 comments 310 likes 11 hours ago
Most Americans think of our country as righteous, compassionate and just. We're taught to honor those virtues--in the breach. We are thoroughgoing imperialists and militarists abroad, and domestically we have astronomical incarceration rates, draconian laws, capital punishment and fewer and less generous services for the less fortunate (or, for ...
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Speaking as a New Yorker and a Jew (though not ultra-Orthodox), it was a line from Thursday's story that frustrated me so much. This from a woman whose son had been victimized by a school official as a child, but the school didn't take legal action, just removed ...