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Education With a Debt Sentence: For-Profit Colleges as American Dream Crushers and Factories of Debt
Over the last three decades, the price of a year of college has increased by more than 1,200 percent.
Can a “Firewall Strategy” Keep Big Energy Out of Climate Talks? It Worked for Fighting Tobacco
Kicking the polluters out of the negotiations may sound like wishful thinking. But there is a precedent: the global effort to regulate the tobacco industry.
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At New York March, Activists Work to Connect Capitalist Culprits to Climate Crisis
At the largest climate march in history, activists made a point to tie climate disruption to those seen as most responsible - major corporations and governments.
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Imagining Our Dark and Stormy Future: Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything“
If you generally avoid reading about climate change (out of paralysis, fear or grief), read Naomi Klein's “This Changes Everything.”
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The Mysteries of Inequality Are Only Mysterious to Elites
The government openly acts to ensure that wages don't rise.
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Attacking J Street Won’t Bring Justice for Palestinians
Take issue with J Street, which supported strikes on Gaza, but any plausible vision for a future progressive victory includes J Street in the winner's circle.
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Fascism 101: The Police and Media Control
Students of the profession of policing in St. Louis are invited to a seminar on how to “WIN WITH THE MEDIA!”
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Afghanistan Survival Skills
Former US Army Ranger and conscientious objector Rory Fanning says Anand Gopal's book answers the questions that haunted him both during and after his tours.
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Can “Womenomics” Stem the Feminization of Poverty in Japan?
Statistics indicate that Japan is now registering record poverty levels.
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At Elite Media, “Scientific” Racists Fit in Fine
Nicholas Wade's NYT science writing thrilled white supremacists.