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Sports economist Andrew Zimbalist talks about how hosting the World Cup or Olympics can help a city, but more often results in waste and sometimes even a decline in …

You will be wrong sometimes, and need to do your best to figure out why. What you should never ever do, of course, is make excuses, or pretend that …

Despite all the progress made in the past fifty years since the Civil Rights Act, we still have a very long way to go.

With his latest media blitz, Dick Cheney hopes to preserve and solidify the “war on terror” as the dominant narrative presented to Americans as an explanation of US foreign …

Mainstream press stories are telling half-truths about child victims, while muddling or downright manipulating the question of who and what is responsible.

While some of these sixty five million people may eat hot dogs and watch fireworks, they are left out of the July 4 promise of life, liberty and the …

A funeral in Prato Italy for Chinese immigrant workers over 200 days after their deaths in factory fire illustrates how the quest for high profits and low-cost goods drives …

The switch to finance is a switch in terms of where profits are being obtained and, along with the profits, very high salaries.

In terms of getting more people to use alternative transportation, the connection between bikes and public transportation is essential.

Despite the tragedy of the crimes and the desperate desire to find the perpetrators, would civilized society countenance the widespread ransacking of property, imprisonment of hundreds and the death …