Dave Lindorff, an In These Times contributing editor, is the author of This Can’t Be Happening: Resisting the Disintegration of American Democracy. His work can be found at This Can’t Be Happening.
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Dispatch
Radioactive Wounds of War
Tests on returning troops suggest serious health consequences of depleted uranium use in Iraq
Dave Lindorff
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Dispatch
Before Sunset
A broad coalition is pushing Congress to rein in the Patriot Act
Dave Lindorff
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Dispatch
GMs Healthcare Double Standard
Bad ideology trumps good business
Dave Lindorff
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Feature
Beating the Boomers
Why Bush and Co. are racing to cut Social Security
Dave Lindorff
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A Milli Vanilli President
Dave Lindorff
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Dispatch
Protesting Too Little?
Homeland Security wants to cage dissent at this summer’s political conventions
Dave Lindorff
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Dispatch
Working the System
Agency advises employers how to duck overtime pay
Dave Lindorff
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Dishonorable Discharge
Bush administration slashes veteran’s benefits
Dave Lindorff
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Dispatch
Still Watching
Private industry moves in to compile personal data
Dave Lindorff
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Dispatch
White-Collar Blues
Professional jobs shifting overseas
Dave Lindorff
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Dispatch
Military Families Against the War
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Dispatch
Finally Free
One Death Row inmate’s uphill battle
Dave Lindorff
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Electricity Markets and the Blackout
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Feature
Civil Liberties Take a Dive Post-9/11
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Feature
Crude History Lesson
Is the war all about oil after all?
Dave Lindorff
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Rigged Justice
Supreme Court rules against stacking juries with whites
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After <i>Miller-El,</i> Mumia Abu-Jamal May Appeal
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The No-Fly List
Is a federal agency systematically harassing travelers for their political beliefs?
Dave Lindorff
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Dispatch
False Witness
No evidence, but a Missouri inmate is facing execution.
Dave Lindorff
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Dispatch
Reversal of Fortune?
Mumia’s death sentence is overturned, for now
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Dispatch
Publish or Perish
Supreme Court hands a vistory to freelance writers
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Feature
Self Defense
A new book leads Mumia to fire his legal team
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