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t r u t h o u t

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US Bureau of Economic Analysis

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National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers

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Trump will take office as a lame duck. That could matter — a lot. - It’s time to free our politics from the unhealthy hold Trump has on the imaginations of both parties.
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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CentBudgPolPrior

- The Census Bureau has released nationwide figures for poverty, income, and health insurance coverage in 2023 from its Current Population Survey. Additional...
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washingtonpost.com - Editorials

Four Israeli hostages are finally free. Now for peace talks to break through. - Israel’s rescue of four hostages is good news, but Gaza’s suffering can’t ease without a truce.
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This Modern World

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Webb Wilder - Webb News

WW to visit WSM's "Coffee, Country, & Cody" show on Thursday, May 9th, 2024 [posted Monday, May 6th, 2024]... - WW to visit WSM's "Coffee, Country, & Cody" show on Thursday, May 9th, 2024 [posted Monday, May 6th, 2024]... Webb will be stopping by WSM radio's studio o...
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The Levy Economic Institute of Bard College News Wire

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EditorPublisher

President Finally Calls on Helen Thomas, Says He Only Semi-Regrets It -
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Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall

Listen to This: The Race To Ban Abortion - A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Kate and guest host Nicole Lafond discuss the...
2 years ago
Google Operating System

Bring Back YouTube Dislikes - YouTube has recently hidden the number of dislikes for YouTube videos. In a blog post from November, YouTube announced that this was done to "help better...
2 years ago
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines

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Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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3 years ago
The American Prospect Articles

Five Key Takeaways From Israel’s Indecisive Election Rerun - Heidi Levine/Sipa/Pool via AP Benjamin Netanyahu at a voting station in Jerusalem, September 17, 2019 Anyone expecting clarity from Israel’s electoral re...
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MotherJones.com | MoJoBlog - Social Issues and Political Commentary

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KLEW - News - Local & Regional

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WiredRights

A Scheme to Encrypt the Entire Web Is Actually Working - [image: A Scheme to Encrypt the Entire Web Is Actually Working] The non-profit certificate authority Let's Encrypt is enabling a sea change toward HTTPS enc...
8 years ago
Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media

AI's not AI - There has been a lot of commentary recently on issues relating to an experimental chat bot that Microsoft has (or had) launched named (after, perhaps, a ri...
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Blogger in Draft

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WSJ.com: Real Time Economics

5 Things to Watch on the Economic Calendar - The minutes from the Federal Reserve's latest policy meeting highlight the week.
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Librarians' Internet Index: New This Week

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edilee

Whys and Hows of Suggested Tiles - As Darren discussed on Monday’s project call [wiki.mozilla.org], Suggested Tiles has been on track to go live to a larger audience next week for wider beta...
9 years ago
MarketWatchComment

Lawrence G. McMillan: Breadth divergence is a troubling sign for the stock market - Stock-market indicators are turning bearish — and most worrisome among this group is breadth.
10 years ago
Salon: Glenn Greenwald

Exclusive: Despite escalating government intimidation, Greenwald will “force the issue” and visit U.S. - Months after the first insinuations that he risks arrest if he visits the US, Greenwald is more concerned than ever
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GoogleReaderBlog

A final farewell - Thank you for stopping by. Today, we powered down Google Reader. We understand you may not agree with this decision, but we hope you'll come to love thes...
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Google Blogoscoped

The Emperor's Garden - The Emperor instructed the gardener to set up the new court's garden. "I want you to plant five trees growing the Crataan fruit," the Emperor said, "Becaus...
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BarbEhrenreichBlog

Nickel and Dimed (2011 Version) - On Turning Poverty into an American Crime By Barbara Ehrenreich I completed the manuscript for Nickel and Dimed in a time of seemingly boundless prosperity...
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BusinessWeek

Can the Angry Birds Keep Flying? - Rovio Mobile Oy has to convince investors it has staying power, as it rolls out new games and a movie
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Froomkin

Obama the Sphinx - President Obama officially launched his push for peace in the Middle East yesterday, sending his new envoy George Mitchell to the region and declaring his ...
15 years ago
Language Log

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16 years ago
Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald

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