Archive for July 2011
This week’s articles of note
“An un-American response to the Oslo attack,” Salon, by Glenn Greenwald “Behind economic hard times, fear of the new,” Washington Post, by Robert Samuelson “Stinger: James O’Keefe’s greatest hits,” New York Times Magazine, by Zev Chafets “When patents attack,” NPR: This American Life, by Alex Blumberg and Laura Sydell “Amy Winehouse: the final interview,” The […]
Where the debt comes from
As Congress dithers over extending the debt ceiling, the New York Times has published a useful chart that indicates when the current $14.3 trillion debt originated, as well as who holds the debt. The chart shows that $6.1 trillion of the total, or about 43 percent, resulted from actions during the George W. Bush administration, the most of any […]
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