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A man walks on top of a wall next to a flooded highway in New Brunswick, N.J., Aug. 28, 2011, as heavy rains left by Hurricane Irene are causing inland flooding of rivers and streams. Flood waters rose all across New Jersey on Sunday, closing roads from side streets to major highways as Hurricane Irene weakened and moved on, leaving 600,000 homes and businesses without power. (AP Photo/Mel Evans) (AP)

Samantha Gross, Dave Gram
Neil Bush

Ken Silverstein
Narayana Kocherlakota, Charles Plosser and Richard Fisher

Andrew Leonard
People participate in a rally against a proposed mosque and Islamic community center near ground zero in New York, Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) (Seth Wenig)

Exposed: The Islamophobia network in America

Justin Elliott

Jefferson Morley

Ron Paul hurricane plan: "We should be like 1900"

Alex Pareene
Rep. Steve Southerland

Alex Pareene

When Mitt Romney gets mad at women

Steve Kornacki

Budget cuts imperil hurricane forecasting

Alex Pareene
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke

Andrew Leonard
Josef Fritzl who was convicted in 2009 of imprisoning his daughter, Elisabeth, in a basement for 24 years

Phil Cain - GlobalPost
Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. greats a supporter outside the Myrtle Beach Convention Center in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Friday, August 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Willis Glassgow) (AP)

Don't count out Bachmann -- yet

Steve Kornacki
A Palestinian woman waits behind a wall after she was refused entry to cross into Jerusalem from Israel's Qalandiya checkpoint outside the West Bank city of Ramallah, during the third Friday of the holy month of Ramadan August 19, 2011. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside (WEST BANK - Tags: RELIGION POLITICS) (© Darren Whiteside / Reuters)

The truth about Congress' Israel tours

Ahmad Tibi

Peter Finocchiaro
An image provided by NOAA is an Aug. 26, 2011 view of Hurricane Irene made by the GOES-east satellite. The hurricane is projected to follow a path up the East Coast from North Carolina to Maine and into Canada. (AP Photo/NOAA) (AP)

Mitch Weiss
President Obama. Far right: Ali Soufan

The CIA's despicable new censorship effort

Glenn Greenwald
In this photograph taken July 20, 2010, Orlando Payton looks for work at JobTrain employment office in Menlo Park, Calif. The recovery lost momentum in the second quarter as growth slowed to a 2.4 percent pace, its most sluggish showing in nearly a year and too weak to drive down unemployment. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) (Paul Sakuma)

David Sirota
Gov. Rick Perry

Michael Winship
In this Dec. 17, 2010 photo, Theresa Christenson holds an unemployment check in her home in Burbank, Calif. Before she was laid off from a quality assurance job at Yahoo in July 2009, Christenson earned around $100,000 a year. The 58-year-old has managed to hang on to the 4-bedroom house that she co-owns with her sister, where they've lived for 22 years. "It really gets me when they say 'you lazy people,'" says Christenson, who lives on $1,720 a month in unemployment insurance benefits and what's left of her dwindling 401K. "They have no idea how depressing that is when you have been beating your head against the wall, trying to find work. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) (Nick Ut)

Andrew Leonard

Vaccines still safe, actual doctors report

Alex Pareene

Alex Pareene
In this March 6, 1930 file photo, groups of unemployed gather in front of the White House before parading in protest in Washington

Robert Reich
New York Governor George Pataki addresses the National Press Club on energy independence in Washington August 7, 2006. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES) (© Jim Young / Reuters)

Steve Kornacki
Sunita Thakur holds her son while she waits to receive family planning counseling at the Institutional Clinic and Training Center in Nepal

Hanna Ingber Win - GlobalPost
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