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The Business Interests Behind America’s Costly Medical Care
The United States spends far more on medical care than other wealthy countries, due mostly to higher prices for health care goods and services. In U.S. politics, social progress …
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Jesus Is an Economic Engine: Dismantling the Metaphoric Mechanization of Everything
The metaphors we use matter, and “economic engine” is one we need to lose - now.
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We Don’t Want You to Swim in the River
The last time North Korea got frisky, the Navy showed off an anti-missile laser. Now, with the crisis continuing in Ukraine, the Navy is showing off something even scarier.
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The Code of Crisis and Disaster
To respond to a week of triple catastrophe - a UN climate change report, the Ryan budget, the McCutcheon decision - it is crucial to confront and decode our …
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On Climate, Business as Usual
Despite mounting evidence that global warming is an urgent crisis, emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases grew faster between 2000 and 2010 than over the previous three decades.
Homeless and Unemployed in America
The tiny house movement sweeping the country might be the solution to some housing and social problems caused by the recession.
“There’s a Muslim in America Named Muhammad Ali”
Documentary film forces viewers to cope with a black man who floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee in a white world.
IMF Annual Meetings Focus on High Debt Burdens and Global Inequality
The annual International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank meetings are focusing on the role of high debt burdens in both global economic recovery and increasing inequality.
Many Faces of War
Iraq has been occupied for over 11 years now. Over two million troops have flown in and out of theater, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and …
Free Speech Or Bribery?
This month the US Supreme took another step toward the destruction of campaign finance reform with a five to four decision known as McCutcheon v. Federal Elections Commission.