(BusinessWeek featured the above photo of billionaire Tom Steyer holding a jar of tar-sands oil. The article, titled “Tom Steyer: The Wrath of a Green Billionaire,” lauded his crusade to stop construction of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport tar-sands oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. As Darwin Bondgraham reports, part […]

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  (In January, Hillary Clinton gave testimony on the attacks on a U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in which four Americans died. Republican Senator Jim Inhofe described the former secretary of state as having a “forceful attitude” that he wasn’t accustomed to hearing from women.) Some Republicans would like us to believe Benghazi is another Watergate. President Barack […]

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(Last week, Jason Richwine resigned from the Heritage Foundation after, among other things, it was revealed he wrote for a white supremacy publication called AlternativeRight, edited by Richard Spencer, above. Arthur Goldwag reported from a 2011 conference in which Spencer’s National Policies Institute released a report entitled “The Majority Strategy: Why the GOP Must Win White […]

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(Permanent hatred of Israel justifies its policies toward the Palestinians, say advocates like Alan Dershowitz. That’s demonstrably false, says M.J. Rosenberg. There was no such animus when Yitzhak Rabin was prime minister in the mid-1990s. Image source: AP.) Sometimes it is instructive to listen to what Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz says because his way […]

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(Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel answered questions after a Pentagon report showed a sharp increase in sexual assaults in the military. The AP called it an “epidemic.” Image source: AP) Which gender suffers most from sexism and sexual predation? Ask a policeman or a social worker; delve into the social science literature and the answer […]

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