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Articles about United States, ordered by date. 
The US is not teetering on the edge of bankruptcy
As Obama ushers in a new debit-limit bill, Mark Engler explains how the argument ‘We’re broke’ is used to justify the demolition of social safety nets.
Tea and paranoia
Politicians in the US and Australia play the anti-immigration card.
Palm trees in the snow
There are no palm trees in Wisconsin – but there’s a red-faced newsreader at Fox News.
Fracking the world
Hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking’ – Big Oil’s newest way to extract natural gas from an exhausted planet – comes with a terrible environmental price tag. Joyce Nelson digs deeper.
New book by Noam Chomsky
Beware Americans talking ‘stability’, warns Noam Chomsky.
Taboo economics
Marc Engler has a taboo solution to the US’s economic woes.
The US military budget
Overcoming empire is not a spectator sport.
The hole in America's middle
Mark Engler's regular column from the magazine
Moving on up: the big money takeover of America
Moving on up - the big money takeover of America
Jesse Jackson on regrets, rejoicing and racism
The Baptist minister and US civil rights activist talks to Rowenna Davis about regrets, rejoicing and racism.
Okinawans battle to close US bases
Okinawa currently hosts 75 per cent of US military facilities in Japan
That petrol emotion: BP's 'cleanup' of the Gulf of Mexico
Adam Ma’anit peers beyond the smoke and mirrors at BP’s ‘clean up’ of the Gulf of Mexico.
We need to bust the pendulum, not see how it swings!
Our new columnist Mark Engler considers the impact of the US midterm elections.
Don Blankenship
Big coal equals big profits, so Don Blankenship doesn’t worry too much about pollution.
Droning on
President Obama has carried out more drone attacks than George W Bush.
Guantánamo: Both Sides of the Wire
Rowenna Davis meets a guard and an inmate from the notorious US prison camp in Cuba.
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