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The Paranoid Style Of Being Anti-Obama

One historian’s analysis of the 1964 presidential election offers an explanation of the American far right’s intransigence today.

John Nordin
作者 John Nordin

Around the time President Kennedy was killed in 1963 and Barry Goldwater succeeded in capturing the nomination of the Republicans for president in 1964, the noted historian Richard Hofstadter published "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," a work now considered a classic. In this and two other lesser-known essays about the conservative

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Senators Push ‘Real, Not Cosmetic’ NSA Reform Bill

The ACLU said the bill, whose full text has not yet been released, was “the first shot in the fight for comprehensive intelligence reform.”

Jacob Chamberlain
作者 Jacob Chamberlain

A draft bill announced by a bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Wednesday promises to establish real, "not cosmetic" reform at the National Security Agency, whose vast surveillance practices have gone largely unchecked. The Intelligence Oversight and Surveillance Reform Act, drafted by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.), Sens.

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Humanitarian Nightmare Spreads in Wake of Pakistan Earthquake

As toll of dead and injured rises, survivors face shortage of water, shelter, medical supplies.

Sarah Lazare
作者 Sarah Lazare

The death toll from this week's earthquake in southwestern Pakistan continues to climb, with authorities announcing Thursday 356 confirmed dead and over 600 injured. Those grim statistics are expected to rise as countless people remain trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings. The 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck the impoverished

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Syria Arsenal Inspections To Begin Tuesday

The inspectors are responsible for tracking down Syria’s chemical arms stockpile and verifying its destruction.

In this image taken from TV Syria's president Bashar al-Assad speaks during an interview in Tehran, Iran, Thursday June 28, 2012. (AP Photo/IRIB TV via APTN)

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The inspectors responsible for tracking down Syria's chemical arms stockpile and verifying its destruction plan to start work in Syria by Tuesday. They will face their tightest deadlines ever and work right in the heart of a war zone, according to a draft decision obtained Friday by The Associated Press. The decision is

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NSA Spied On MLK, US Senators And Other Vietnam War Critics, Documents Show

Agency’s self-proclaimed ‘disreputable if not outright illegal’ practices threaten civil liberties then and now, critics warn.

Jacob Chamberlain
作者 Jacob Chamberlain
President Lyndon Johnson shakes hands with the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., after handing him one of the pens used in signing the Civil Rights Act of July 2, 1964 at the White House in Washington. The anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday falls in the month of January. (Photo by U.S. Embassy New Delhi)

NSA documents that were declassified this week show that the agency—which has come under increased scrutiny for its dragnet surveillance practices—heavily surveilled and tapped the phones of high-profile critics of the Vietnam War, including Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali, and two U.S. senators including Idaho Democrat Frank Church. These

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Higher Labor Costs In China Could Send Manufacturing Jobs Back To The US

A wealthier China increasingly can’t provide the cheap labor that once sent U.S. manufacturers overseas.

Frederick Reese
作者 Frederick Reese

Recently, Walmart has been touting merchandise that is “Made in America.” The world’s largest retailer -- whose low-cost policies have led to the offshore manufacturing of much of the nation’s consumer goods -- has seemingly made a course direction toward embracing American production. “At the heart of our national political conversation today is

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