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Wall Street Journal economics editor David Wessel explains the current financial crisis as the product of too clever minds, too much money, and very little accountability. "The brightest of our youth were lured to finance because the pay was so big," says Wessel. "They didn't care about the problems they were creating if the house of cards fell down."

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Why Do Americans Continue to Deny Climate Change?
23 may  |  Journalist Mark Hertsgaard argues the United States is the only advanced industrial nation that continues to debate the existence of climate change. Though climate change skeptics only represent a minority of the country, Hertsgaard says their megaphone is large. He compares them to tobacco industry lobbyists who once rejected evidence that smoking causes cancer.

Would do you think of this description of climate change skepticism? What can activists in the U.S do to change this culture of denial? Tell us and remember...Disqus!   . . read more

U.S in Libya: Get shot by your own bullets
22 mar  |  By Sean Maguire

There are few people in this world who would defend Gaddafi as a sane and viable leader of Libya; but I think there would be even less that would see the logic in the U.S selling guns to someone as psychotic as him and then parading about as world police.

It's the equivalent of a sheriff giving an outlaw a six-shooter and then acting surprised when he starts popping off the town folk. 

The second one U.S plane gets shot down by one U.S surface-to-air missile, all the military big wigs should get together and make a decision once and for all - "we have to stop shooting at tyrants we've given guns to".

What do you think about Libya? What do you think about the obvious contradictions in U.S foreign policy and how do you think they should be addressed? Tell us and remember...Disqus!  . . read more

Will We Heed President Obama's Call for a More Empathic Society?
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Whoopi Goldberg: Free Speech and the 'N' Word
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Jim Lehrer: An Uneasy Nation Feeds Political Extremism
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The Onion's Baratunde Thurston Talks Real Time Media
22 feb  |  The Onion's web editor Baratunde Thurston outlines the iconic publication's evolution from a weekly print newspaper to a real time media publisher utilizing social media tools.
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Does Warrantless Surveillance Violate the 4th Amendment?
15 mar  |  Reporter Shane Harris traces the controversy over the Bush administration's Terrorist Surveillance Program to a fundamental debate over language in the Fourth Amendment. Harris recalls a heated debate within the administration about the program's constitutionality and the definition of "unreasonable searches and seizures." . . read more
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"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -- Ronald Reagan (1986)