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Steve Friedman on the Employment Report

…numbers can be misleading but if we define the long-term as what has happened since Bush took office, employment has fallen by more than 300 thousand. But Friedman claimed employment…

Michael Scheuer leaves CIA

…whom the CIA banned from speaking publicly in July, said in a statement issued by his publisher. Can we define a government that loses its best advisors because it refuses…

What Is To Be Done?

…grow liberalism. …We have to define liberalism according to positive semiotic frames. We have to be willing to take these frames to every corner of the nation, and run candidates…

…a new standard for Medicare “insolvency.” It would define the program as insolvent whenever, in two consecutive years, more than 45 percent of its spending comes from general income tax…