(Immigration reform died in 2007 because lawmakers wanted the border secured first. The U.S. spent $18 billion on border security last year. Image source: DHS.) As Republican lawmakers demand even more militarization at the border, activists and policy analysts say the border is the safest it has been in history. In January, the Migration Policy […]

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This article has been updated. In April, it was revealed that among the advisors to Ron Paul’s newly opened Institute for Peace and Prosperity were: an anti-semite; a flake who thinks Abraham Lincoln is one of history’s greatest monsters; a 9-11 conspiracy theorist; and Lew Rockwell. But that’s not why April was a cruel month […]

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(Last summer, the Tax Justice Network released a study estimating around $21 trillion is being held in offshore tax havens, which is equal to the annual GDPs of the U.S. and Japan. Tax havens, says philosopher Daniel Innerarity, exemplify our new age of piracy: TJN) Piracy is no longer a historical curiosity or a simple […]

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(The white liberal establishment, says the author, was quiet in the face of Melissa Harris-Perry’s baseless accusations of racism in a 2011 column in The Nation.) The question itself is already a provocation. As I conjure up the words, I envision the Rev. Al Sharpton rousing the peanut gallery, readying himself to shoot me down. […]

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(Daniel Pipes hoped to destroy the National Iranian American Council. His plan backfired: AP) The war over war with Iran has many battlefronts. Inside Washington, the battle line is between a small coalition of peace and security, non-proliferation and religious groups opposing war and favoring a peaceful solution to the stand off with Iran, and […]

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