Puzzle No. 3346 Puzzle No. 3346
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Nov 25, 2014 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
How One Woman Tried—and Failed—to Stop the Fed From Driving the US Into Recession How One Woman Tried—and Failed—to Stop the Fed From Driving the US Into Recession
Nancy Teeters, who passed away last week, was the lone dissenter as Volcker’s Federal Reserve tore apart the country’s social fabric.
Nov 24, 2014 / William Greider
Rand Paul Points to Some Real Executive Overreach: Undeclared Wars Rand Paul Points to Some Real Executive Overreach: Undeclared Wars
Rand Paul and Barbara Lee are right: “The Constitution requires Congress to vote on the use of military force.”
Nov 24, 2014 / John Nichols
This Is the Next Big Fight Between Progressives and the Wall Street Dems This Is the Next Big Fight Between Progressives and the Wall Street Dems
Progressive senators are objecting to Obama’s latest Wall Street nominee.
Nov 24, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter
What ‘Free Trade’ Has Done to Central America What ‘Free Trade’ Has Done to Central America
Warnings about the human and environmental costs went unheeded. Now the most vulnerable Central Americans are paying the price.
Nov 24, 2014 / Manuel Pérez-Rocha, Julia Paley, and Foreign Policy In Focus
Fifteen Millennial Movements Taking Off This Week Fifteen Millennial Movements Taking Off This Week
From New York to Ferguson to Santa Cruz, a generation rises.
Nov 24, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Who’s Ready for Hillary? Who’s Ready for Hillary?
Depending on whom you ask, Clinton is a triangulating pro-corporate Democrat or a heroic shatterer of glass ceilings—or both.
Nov 24, 2014 / Feature / Kathleen Geier, Joan Walsh, Jamelle Bouie, Doug Henwood, Heather Digby Parton, Steven Teles, and Richard Yeselson
Leslie Feinberg: Defiant Radical, Gender Queer Revolutionary Leslie Feinberg: Defiant Radical, Gender Queer Revolutionary
Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues is best understood within the genre of American revolutionary fiction that linked oppressions, forged solidarity and expressed utopian longings. ...
Nov 24, 2014 / Jack Halberstam
$1 Billion: That’s How Much Walmart Avoids Paying in Taxes Each Year Through Loopholes $1 Billion: That’s How Much Walmart Avoids Paying in Taxes Each Year Through Loopholes
Think you're getting a great deal on Black Friday? You should see how much Walmart is "saving."
Nov 24, 2014 / Michelle Chen
Why Chuck Hagel’s Departure Really Matters Why Chuck Hagel’s Departure Really Matters
The United States is rapidly shifting toward a more aggressive foreign policy with limited public debate.
Nov 24, 2014 / George Zornick