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Why Move Jobs From Democracies To Thugocracies

"Free trade" treaties like NAFTA have wiped out entire regions of our country and left entire segments of our population without good-paying jobs -- or in so many cases with no jobs at all. And they have had similar results with our trade "partners." We can see that...

What Deindustrialization Looks Like

A picture is worth a thousand words, the saying goes. Get a bunch of pictures together, and they tell a story.The Huffington Post has posted a slideshow of images depicting the decline of Detroit, Michigan, taken from the book The Ruins of Detroit, by Yves Marchand...

Going Back In Time With Rand Paul

Hey, everyone in the Rand Paul pile-on, make room for one more. I'm coming in for a landing! I shouldn't pick on the good doctor, though he makes it too easy. After all, his latest media train wrecks gave me a chance to resurrect a timeline of industrial disasters I...

Rand Paul Wants It Both Ways

(If They Could Turn Back Time, Pt. 2) When I heard Rand Paul's statement about the civil rights act, I had a sense of deja vu. Not only that I'd heard them before, but that I run into the peculiar conservative phenomenon they represented: wanting have it both ways on...

If They Could Turn Back Time Pt 4

Imagine, if you will, Rand Paul, Michelle Bachman, and Sharron Angle — with Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck on speakerphone — sitting down together with a copy of the constitution, and a red pen. For edits, of course. Now, open your eyes. And, if you're a...

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