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Robert Kuttner: American Policy Made in China

Co-founder and co-editor, 'The American Prospect'

Last week, President Obama forcefully declared that the United States would not withdraw from the Asia-Pacific, telling the Australian Parliament that he was dispatching 2,500 Marines as well as ships and aircraft to serve at a base in the Australian port of Darwin. The message, in case anybody missed it, was unmistakably directed at China. But while Obama was making symbolic military gestures, his administration was doing nothing serious to contest China's growing threat to America's economic base. That threat is spelled out in an official government document that should be mandatory reading for all of us: the annual report of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, released last Thursday.

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The Super Committee's Big Lie

Jeffrey Sachs, 11/20/11

Economist; professor and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University; Special Advisor to the UN Secretery-General; author, 'The Price of Civilization'

As the Super Committee threatens this week to gut the government on the basis of a big lie, it's more important than ever that we fight back with systematic data. With truth on our side, the new progressive movement will prevail.

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Politics

Giving Thanks for the Occupation, Election, Demonstrations

Leo W. Gerard, 11/21/11

International President, United Steelworkers

Before the occupation movement began, country club conservatives had confined political discussion and concern to government deficits. No one acknowledged the unemployed, the impoverished or the foreclosed on -- except to condemn them. The occupations changed this.

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Crime

Sandusky's Devastating Interview

Michael Smerconish, 11/20/11

Radio host

What's the connection between Simpson and Sandusky, who is charged with assaulting eight boys? Both men's statements are devastating to their defense.

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Healthy Living

Why Do I Have a Smartphone If I Don't Want to Talk to Anyone?

Nancy Colier, 11/20/11

Psychotherapist, Interfaith Minister, Writer, Public Speaker

I suppose that I too am guilty (if that's the right word) of avoiding contact, or taking the easy way out. And so I asked myself, what are we all so afraid of? The easy way out of what?

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Politics

Don't Demonize Political Opponents... Infantilize Them

Harry Shearer, 11/19/11

Your dog's best friend

In a time of fiercely mean politics, when Right and Left compete to demonize each other ever more ferociously, Americans are wearying of the noise and the rancor. So what to do? Here, in a modest photo gallery, is my suggestion.

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Books

Hilarious eBay Purchases (PHOTOS)

Cary McNeal and Beverly Jenkins, 11/19/11

We paid good money for 101 of the crappiest, creepiest, raunchiest and most inexplicable items we could find on the most popular online auction website in history.

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Politics

Michele Bachmann's Body: A Potential Crime Scene?

Cristina Page, 11/19/11

Author, 'How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America'

Bachmann should think twice about serving up her miscarriage as proof of her pro-life credentials. In the future she dreams of for American women, it could be circumstantial evidence.

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Religion

Creationists Drive Young People Out of the Church

Karl Giberson, Ph.D, 11/19/11

Author, 'The Anointed: Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age'

In the name of protecting Christianity from a secularism perceived as corrosive to the faith, the creationists are unwittingly driving the best and brightest evangelicals out of the church.

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Business

Why Critics of Wall Street Exist Among Avowed Capitalists

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, 11/20/11

Rabbi and writer

Since I am an avowed capitalist, why should there be any issue with banks or those who have legitimately found a means by which to produce staggering wealth? For two reasons.

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Healthy Living

6 Home Remedies to Soothe Cold and Flu Symptoms

Missy Chase Lapine, 11/19/11

Creator, Sneaky Chef series of books

There's a dizzying assortment of over-the-counter syrups and remedies that promise the world, but beware that most simply block the symptoms and do not cure the ailment.

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Canada

Is College Now the Ultimate Crapshoot?

David Frum, 11/20/11

Editor, FrumForum.com

If and when a Canadian decides to go to university, they just... go. For student and parent alike, the process is straightforward, inexpensive and seemingly non-traumatic. Or maybe that's just the grass-is-greener perspective of a parent in the throes of the American college-application maelstrom.

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Gay Voices

I'm Retiring the Word 'Tranny'... Will You Join Me?

Kelly Osbourne, 11/19/11

Television personality

As a lifelong LGBT ally and friend, I feel it is my duty to not only apologize for my wrong but to also correct it. The word "tr*nny" is a derogatory and hurtful word. I was completely ignorant to this. This is a word I will no longer use or allow.

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Politics

Occupy Wall Street: From Building Awareness to Maintaining Momentum

Mohamed A. El-Erian, 11/19/11

CEO and co-CIO, PIMCO

By striking a chord with many in America and across the world, it is a movement that cannot, and should not be dismissed. It will resonate even more as western economies continue to struggle with sluggish growth and high unemployment. Yet it is too early to declare victory.

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Politics

Militarization of Campus Police

Bob Ostertag, 11/19/11

Composer, historian, journalist, and Professor of Technocultural Studies and Music at UC Davis

What we have seen in the last two weeks around the country, and now at Davis, is a radical departure from the way police have handled protest in this country for half a century.

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Politics

Both Sides Now: If Debates Are the First Primary, Is Gingrich Winning?

HuffPost Radio, 11/20/11

Matalin and Reagan discuss whether a reality show called "GOP debates" are choosing survivors. Is Newt smart and experienced or a "lobbyist and liar"? Then: will we attack Iran, too?

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Politics

Should a President Be Intelligent?

Gary Hart, 11/19/11

Teacher, author, and lecturer

Neither Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, nor John Kennedy were intellectual giants. But the keenness of their respective minds was revealed every day. And they were not threatened by smart people around them.

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Politics

Jon Huntsman's Saturday Night Live Appearance Was Smart Campaigning

Danny Groner, 11/20/11

Manager, Shutterstock

One SNL appearance is not enough alone to help Huntsman's numbers. But it does have the ability to get people talking.

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Culture

Diagnosing the 'Personhood' Problem: It's in Your Brain

Jonathan D. Moreno, 11/20/11

Professor, University of Pennsylvania; Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress; author, The Body Politic: The Battle Over Science in America (2011)

Why do we have trouble defining what a "person" is? The answer may lie in human evolutionary antiquity. It seems that the neuroscientific and evolutionary evidence for a hard-wired but increasingly dysfunctional idea of personhood is compelling.

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Healthy Living

4 Immune-Boosting Myths Busted

EatingWell, 11/20/11

Where Good Taste Meets Good Health

There's no better time than the present to talk about immune-boosting myths -- from colds to allergies.

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Travel

The Most Remote Islands in the World (PHOTOS)

BootsnAll, 11/20/11

A one-stop indie travel guide, founded in 1998

There are few places left in the world that are truly undiscovered, but if you're willing to venture far, far off the beaten path, you can find a few that still seem remote.

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Sports

What We Can All Learn from Tim Tebow

Sam Chaltain, 11/19/11

www.samchaltain.com

The education of Tim Tebow is also a chance for the rest of us to be reminded of some essential truths: that we must continually create spaces for new ways of seeing and understanding old systems.

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Politics

Dear Mr. President, Will You Please Speak Up About Police Assaulting Protesters on College Campuses?

Jesse Kornbluth, 11/19/11

Editor of HeadButler.com

This isn't rocket science. It's not even politics. It's Democracy 101, and I hope we'll see more of it -- and fewer videos like this.

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Style

I'm with Stupid: Wear These Clothes While You Kiss the Pope

Todd Hartley, 11/19/11

Columnist, screenwriter, playwright, lyricist, novelist, blogger and stand-up comedian

I'm sure the ads were probably conceived by some high-priced agency, and I imagine they're considered very cutting-edge, but for the life of me I'm not sure what Benetton's point is.

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Politics

When Despots and Bullies Run the Government (VIDEO)

Shawn Lawrence Otto, 11/19/11

Author, 'Fool Me Twice'; science advocate; filmmaker; co-founder, Sciencedebate.org

A heated exchange between two Congressmen and a historian they didn't want to hear from shows what happens to democracy when knowledge is no longer the arbiter of what is true, but is simply another "way of knowing."

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Divorce

The Jokes on Me

Mara Shapshay, 11/19/11

Stand-up comedian and author, 'Junky American Princess'

I say to all you single gentleman out there, open your minds to a new experience, throw out your outdated ideals of femininity and give dating female stand-up comedians a chance.

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