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CLAIRE PAVLIK PURGUS
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Forty Years Later, Tens of Millions of U.S. Bombs Dropped on Laos
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Student launches kosher delivery service for front-line workers
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War on American Family Farms, SOCO magazine
Policy publications
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From Experience: How to Combat Slavery in Our Generation
(editing and layout)
E-NEWSLETTERS
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Impact, the electronic newsletter of the Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program at Brandeis University
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Healing Essence Center e-newsletters
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Greater Boston Trout Unlimited e-newsletters
Profiles
Articles
commentary
(These I wrote as a columnist for SOCO magazine and are no longer available online.)
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The Truth About the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
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Mental Illness and Guns: Should We Place National Control
Over Gun Ownership? -
What Should We Look for in a Political Candidate?
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Have Race Relations Improved During the Obama Administration?
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Is the Current Immigration Plan Good for the U.S.?
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Is the Government Out of Control?
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How Much Social Welfare Assistance Should the Government Provide?
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Quality of Education Versus Spending: Where is the Disconnect?
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Is the Country Headed in the Right Direction?
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Should We Demand a Federal Budget in the Next 90 Days?
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Labor Unions--What Good Are They?
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Physician-Assisted Suicide: Is it Right or Wrong?
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What Is Wrong With Celebrating Christmas?
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What Will America Look Like if Mitt Romney is Elected President?
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Are We Headed in the Right Direction Under
President Obama's Leadership? -
Should Small-Business Owners Pay More Taxes?
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What Will We Remember About President Obama's First Term?
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Are the Media Biased?
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Should We Have the Right to Defend Ourselves, Family and Home?
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Dependency and Entitlement: Will it Never End?
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Tax on Sweets: Is it Hard to Swallow?
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Is a Politician's Personal Life Any of Our Business?
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Should the U.S. Withdraw from the United Nations?
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Should Iran Be Allowed a Nuclear Bomb?
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Making Sense of Occupy Wall Street
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What Should We Teach Children About 9/11?
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Should We Raise the Retirement Age in the U.S.?
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Will President Obama Win Another Term in 2012?
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Should State Employees Who Have Been Convicted
of a Felony Forfeit Their Pensions? -
Should the U.S. Borders Be Secured
Before We Establish Immigration Reform? -
Should the Wealthy Pay More Taxes?
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Should the Public School Year Be Extended?
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Should Taxpayers Fund Public Media?
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Is Healthcare the Responsibility of the Government?
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Should States, Once They Determine the Immigration Status
of Someone Arrested, Report It To the Federal Government
if They Are Found to be in the U.S. Illegally? -
Should Massachusetts, or Any State, Offer In-State Tuition
to Illegal Residents? -
If I Were President For a Day, What Would I Do?
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Doesn't Everyone Deserve a Tax Break?
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Is Employment a Right or a Privilege?
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Public-Sector Costs Take Large Toll on Bell, California Residents.
What Does It Mean for the Rest of Us? -
Public Opinion and the President
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A Gentle Review of Arizona Bill SB-1070
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Should President Obama Nominate a Liberal to the Supreme Court?
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Big Government--What's the Resistance?
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Senate Retirements--Opportunity to Clear Obstructionism?
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The Tea Party Movement: New Political Animal on the Scene
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That Damn VAT!
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Trials of New York City
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Do Smokers Have Rights?
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Should Massachusetts Eliminate the State Income Tax?
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The Real Question in the November Election:
What Happens to the Supreme Court?
Poetry
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Press Releases
Letters to the Editor
Copyediting
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