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The Heritage Foundation Still Won't Set You Free

We just received our free review copy of the 2008 Index of Economic Freedom, the annual ode to meaningless statistics

Denial Is So White

A Dream Foreclosed

Rampant home foreclosures have made the headlines lately, but hidden on the back pages, or ignored entirely, is the wildly

For the Right of Return

A flood of resistance is rising in New Orleans.

From NAFTA to the SPP

Here comes the Security and Prosperity Partnership, but--what security? whose prosperity?

Inequality: Bad for Your Health

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Online Resource of the Day

Dollars & Sense readers and supporters will find the PLA website most informative. The Predatory Lending Association mission: To help

Sub-Prime Primer

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Oil-Palm Plantations on Afro-Colombian Lands

We received the following letter from the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá, Colombia, in response to our article on the devastating effects of the expanding palm oil industry on Afro-Colombian communities of the Pacific coast (Blood on the Palms, July/August 2007). The author of the article, David Bacon, thou

Immigration History

ICE to Freeze Bank Profits?

In the face of the subprime mortgage crisis, it turns out that making home loans to undocumented immigrants might be

Acting in the Big Picture

New study guide builds on history, hope.