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		<title>Chris Dodd&#8217;s Race to the Bottom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted from Mother Jones.com
In just six months, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), the stately front man of the Senate&#8217;s campaign to crack down on Wall Street, has transformed from financial-reform avenger, scourge of the Federal Reserve, and ally of the average consumer to a GOP pushover. Last fall, the veteran Senator and chairman of the banking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, rhetorical fisticuffs, and the new &#8220;jobs surge&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a new, short piece of mine—an introduction, to be precise, to Steve Fraser&#8217;s most recent piece for TomDispatch.com, &#8220;The New Deal in Reverse: How the Obama Administration Ended Up Where Franklin Roosevelt Began.&#8221; Fraser&#8217;s piece compares the first years of Obama and FDR, and unlike any other historian, he describes how the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawyers, Guns, and Money: How Banks Snooze and Arms Dealers Profit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CROSS-POSTED FROM MOTHERJONES.COM
Among Bank of America’s 50 million customers, Pierre Falcone was far from ordinary. An infamous global arms dealer who unlawfully sold weapons to Angola for its civil war and an international fugitive, Falcone was convicted of tax fraud and illegal arms dealing in 2007 and 2009 and is currently serving six years behind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Taliban Trust Fund and the Infinite Af-Pak War</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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At a major conference in London today, Afghan president Hamid Karzai rolled out his much anticipated Taliban &#8220;reintegration&#8221; or buyout plan, an initiative for which Afghanistan&#8217;s allies have pledged $500 million to pay mid- or lower level fighters to stop fighting and reintegrate into Afghan society. The money could include resettling former Taliban fighters and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Has Obama Won in Iraq?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a day when there&#8217;s nothing but dismal, depressing news on the Obama front, Juan Cole credits the president for what Cole deems his first major foreign policy success: the US drawdown in Iraq. While he acknowledges the presence of US bases there (which will likely never leave), Cole credits Obama for his adherence to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Crash Course on the Financial Meltdown — Pecora Part II Begins</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted from MotherJones.com.
The 10 members of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, the modern heir to the famous Pecora Commission convened in the wake of Wall Street&#8217;s 1929 crash, kicked off a marathon set of hearings on  Wednesday and Thursday by grilling some of Wall Street&#8217;s most powerful executives, the regulators supposedly tasked with reining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michigan&#8217;s Brain Drain Continues&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via The New York Times:
Maine, Michigan, North Dakota and Vermont had net losses of about one in 10 of their young people from 2000 to 2009, as the populations of Northeastern and Midwestern states continued to age faster than those in the Sun Belt, according to new Census Bureau data.
Since 2000, half the states registered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Has Teach for America Solved the Teacher Conundrum?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted with MotherJones.com
The Atlantic has a story in its January/February issue promisingly titled &#8220;What Makes a Great Teacher?&#8221; What indeed? As someone who follows education reform closely and occasionally writes about it, I clicked through to the article, eager to see what the writer, Amanda Ripley, had to say on one of the most puzzling, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blind Ben and the Fed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted with MotherJones.com
In his column today, the New York Times&#8217; David Leonhardt takes to task the Federal Reserve and its chairman, Ben Bernanke, for not acknowledging that they inexplicably missed the housing bubble, and questions the Fed&#8217;s ability to spot future bubbles. In the wake of Bernanke&#8217;s speech this weekend in which he deflected blame [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Curse of Cape Wind</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted with MotherJones.com
Cape Wind, the proposed 24-square-mile wind farm off Cape Cod, just can&#8217;t catch a break. Fiercely opposed by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy and his family, who didn&#8217;t want rows of spinning turbines sullying their view of Nantucket Sound (they claimed the turbines would cause environmental problems), and getting no help from an [...]]]></description>
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