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American CEOs: In a Class All by Themselves
Workers in the United States don't make double what workers make in Japan or Switzerland. Why should US CEOs routinely make double - and often much more - than …
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What Is This Country About Anymore?
When Congress cut off long-term unemployment aid, it left more than 3 million people in the lurch.
What the Court’s Harris v. Quinn Union Decision Means
The anti-union plaintiffs argued that the First Amendment means that people are free to choose who to associate themselves with.
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Homeland Security Goes to School
The relationship between war, national security, and public schooling demands more critical and ethnographic attention.
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A Fracking Fortune Gets Political
After Farris and Dan Wilks cashed in their Texas-based gas company a few years ago for more than $3 billion, they became benefactors of religious right, tea party extremists.
Newspaper Comment Sections Become Cordoned-Off Hate Crime Scenes
The unexpected new locations for hate crime scenes in the 21st century appear to be the comments sections of the nation's leading newspapers, where calls to violence have become …
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A Year After Mass Hunger Strike in California Prisons, What’s Changed?
Last July, 30,000 California prisoners went on hunger strike. Some have been released from solitary and correctional authorities continue a review process as a class-action lawsuit by prisoners goes …
Pacific Missile Range Facility: Kauai’s Biggest Bang Is Out of Sight
A look at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai and what the increasing military presence in the Pacific means for Hawaii and the world.
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The Poisoners and Their Accomplices
“Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA” takes up where Rachel Carson left off - and the news is not good.
Giant Corporations, Giant Failures
Despite GM's bankruptcy, US taxpayers permit and indeed subsidize continued operation by the same company bureaucracy.