Via News Unfiltered, My Good Deed—a social action campaign started by 9-11 survivors and their family and friends—is asking both candidates to temporarily suspend their campaigns on 9-11 and obser
Foreign Policy and the Center for American Progress have released their authoritative Terrorism Index, a survey of 100 bipartisan foreign policy experts to determine the direction of U.S.
Writing from Nevada, site of the National Clean Energy Summit, Alex Bandza reports on Bill Clinton's remarks about charting a clean energy future:According to Clinton, energy is at the heart of ec
In the early third of the last century, alcohol prohibition succeeded in creating and sustaining an underground economy, wherein most of the profit from alcohol went to such grand, life affirming people as Al Capon. Today, despite appeals to Patriotism, people still spend well over 100 billion dollars a year on interdicted intoxicants. If we legalize those substances, we can stop funding terrorists.
I think the first thing on the agenda should be the American economy. With so many large corporations outsourcing overseas, more and more Americans are losing their jobs. The gap between the "rich" and the "poor" is closing more and more, leading to the elimination of our middle class. The new president needs to find a way to create more jobs for Americans, especially during this time of rising food and fuel costs.
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Peter Edelman from the Center for American Progress Poverty Task Force says it's shocking the number of Americans who struggle to make ends meet in today's United States.
Read the Center for American Progress's new report on poverty, FROM POVERTY TO PROSPERITY.
What if our most powerful weapons were ideas?
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The next president should put women's sexual and reproductive rights on the top of his or her agenda, enforce and monitor the money spent on these priorities, and be held accountable for its effectiveness.
