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New Census Data Undermine House GOP’s Reasons For Cutting Social Safety Net

As the House majority threatens to defund Obamacare and cut food stamps, the data show that their claims don’t hold water.

Frederick Reese
بواسطة Frederick Reese
Jose Guillen, 68, sorts recyclable items at a recycling center in Los Angeles, Sept. 14, 2011. The ranks of the nation’s poor have swelled to a new records — nearly 1 in 6 Americans. (AP/Jae C. Hong)

On Friday, the House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution bill that would keep the government funded until Dec. 15. The bill calls for the defunding of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which would offer government-subsidized health insurance to the nation’s uninsured. As this 41st attempt by the House Republicans to shut

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You Can Be Too Careful: Calculating The Risks Of Energy Resources

While there’s no risk-free utopia to be achieved, America’s current evaluation of the risks of various power sources tends toward the irrational.

John Nordin
بواسطة John Nordin

In early July of this year, a freight train loaded with crude oil left a small town in western North Dakota headed east. A day later it was being handled by a small railroad company in Quebec. Night came and the engineer, operating the train by himself, was ready to finish his shift. He left the train on the seldom-used main track, as was normal.

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Japanese PM Tries To Put Lid On Bad PR Over Nuclear Crisis

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s efforts come amid new revelations that the Japanese government and TEPCO ignored warnings to protect their bottom-line.

Sarah Lazare
بواسطة Sarah Lazare

Should the recent words of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe be seen as a renewed effort to take control of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, or a cynical ploy to insulate the nuclear industry and government from increasingly bad publicity amid the country's bid to host the upcoming Olympic games? Abe stepped up his public relations blitz Thursday,

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Obama Administration Takes On Coal With First-Ever Carbon Limits

The proposal imposes limits on new plants and eventually would force the government to limit emissions from the existing power plant fleet, too.

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will press ahead Friday with tough requirements for new coal-fired power plants, moving to impose for the first time strict limits on the pollution blamed for global warming. The proposal would help reshape where Americans get electricity, away from a coal-dependent past into a future fired by cleaner

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Anniversary Of The Sabra And Shatila Massacres In Lebanon Passes Largely Unnoticed

An event the U.N. deemed an act of genocide is apparently not worth including in the American narrative of Middle Eastern history.

Frederick Reese
بواسطة Frederick Reese

Between Sept. 16  and Sept. 18, 1982, between 762 and 3,500 Palestinian and Lebanese civilians -- most of whom were women, children and the elderly -- were raped, tortured, killed and mutilated in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon. The killings were carried out as retaliation for the assassination of Lebanese President Bachir

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Economic ‘Recovery’ Still Leaves Female College Grads Behind

A new report shows women who have recently graduated college disproportionately struggle to find jobs in their fields, especially in the public sector.

Martin Michaels
بواسطة Martin Michaels

Five years after the 2008 economic crisis, about 40 percent of all recent college graduates are unemployed or underemployed. Month after month, however, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported strong job growth and decreasing unemployment after the economic downturn eliminated at least 7.5 million jobs. Researchers from the National

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