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New coal gasification plant is a bad deal for Illinois
The coal gasification plant that Tenasaka Energy wants to build in Taylorville Illinois is the kind of bargain that does not seem to have the best interests of the customers at heart. Coal gasification has been around for over 150 years, with a long history of polluting the areas around it. In the 1850s, coal [...]
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Is college really worth it?
For over forty years, I have been an educator. It may sound odd, but I think that the United States should give serious consideration to greatly reducing the number of students who go to college. This is not a new idea; many people have made the argument that a large percentage of college students learn [...]
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- Should sports be a college major?
- College rankings with a difference
- Ozzie Guillen and the Electoral College
Viet-ghanistan?
It may be too strong an adage to say the definition of insanity is to continue to do the same things with the expectation of different results. One question with U.S. foreign policy is whether its presence in Afghanistan is essentially the same as it was in Vietnam. There may well have been justifications for [...]
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- When do soldiers die “in vain?”
- Afghanistan: Has America ever lost a war?
- The Afghan war is not about terrorism
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Extreme weather convinces Americans: Global warming is real
Corporations have debunked it, media has ignored it, and conservative politicians have fought it, but in spite of these self-serving efforts at denial, Americans get that global warming is real. People used to view climate change as questionable, far away from them, or something to worry about in the future. It was a hoax, or [...]
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- Denying global warming: How low can you go?
- US approves new reactors, while Fukushima radiation is killing Americans
- Avaaz: Global, progressive activism in your inbox
Stupid legislative tricks: Missouri edition
The sillyand nastyseason in Jefferson City, Missouri came to a merciful end last night [May 18, 2012], with the customary cheers and sophomoric tossing-in-the-air of papers that accompany the final gavel of the legislative session. This year, Missouris Show-Me-state legislature gained national notoriety by showing the rest of the country how to be a role [...]
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- Legislative session shows how states are anachronisms
- Joan Bray: Still progressive after all these years in Missouri
- Missouri’s slice of the healthcare-reform pie
Who am I? (81)
Theres more! Youll find a collection of previously published Who Am I teaser images in our Who Am I Gallery. How many can you identify? Occasional Planets Who Am I features people who have made important contributions to liberal thought, progressive politics, human rights, enlightened education, and small-d democratic principlesboth in the US and internationally. [...]
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The odd but simple figures about unemployment
On the first Friday of each month, the U.S. Department of Labor announces job numbers and unemployment figures for the previous month. During the early months of 2012, the figures looked particularly good for the Obama Administration and Democrats. Jobs were growing at over 250,000 per month, and unemployment was dropping from the 9% threshold [...]
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- A dangerous economic cocktail: high unemployment, population growth, falling incomes
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The income inequality speech TED doesnt want you to see
TED is a nonprofit that began in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from the worlds of technology, entertainment, and design. Since then its scope has broadened to include anything it feels is an idea worth spreading. TED publishes video taped talks on its site by creative, cutting edge people who have something unique [...]
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The greatest grid: When America thought big
Most people who want to navigate the streets of New York City quickly learn the easy-to-follow logic of the citys street grid. But what manyeven long-time residentsmay not know is how that grid came to be, and how it transformed Manhattan from a naturally rocky, hilly island into a level playing field that engendered the [...]
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- Theres nothing sexy about buses, but they work
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