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Paying the Price of Tar Sands Expansion
A little-known tax break allows companies to write-off half of the cost of new equipment for refining tar sands and shale oil.
Theodore Roosevelt, Walt Whitman and Andrew Jackson Were Proponents of Native American Genocide
Author Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz speaks about her book on the true history of how the United States became a nation and Eurocentric racism that justified it.
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It’s Time to Stop Letting Sociopaths in Power Tell Us What Makes Us Happy
If we are to save ourselves, we must escape the twin clutches of both corporations and nation-states, providing leadership of the irresponsible.
Henry Giroux on the Rise of Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism is the antithesis of real democracy because it feeds on inequality; it feeds on privilege, it feeds on massive divisiveness, and it feeds on a theater of cruelty.
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Thoughts on Pedagogy
There is another aspect to institutional education today and that is the deep reliance on bureaucratic models, and its connection to sociology. It is important to think about who …
The United States Is Number One … but in What?
American politicians are fond of telling their audiences that the United States is the greatest country in the world. Is there any evidence for this claim?
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Our Empathetic Rich: The Rarest of Birds
The wealthy don't particularly care all that much about the rest of us.
How Germany Managed to Abolish University Tuition Fees
If Germany has done it, why can't we?
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Farms Angry at Labor Department Crackdown on Suspected Worker Abuses
At issue is the little-known “hot goods” provision of federal wage law.
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Islamic State: No One Wants to Talk to Terrorists, but We Always Do – and Sometimes It Works
As the governing and military capacity of an insurgent force grows, so does the likelihood of a negotiated settlement.