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“They Call Us Illegal”: Fast-Food Workers Face Silent Raids
Is it a crime to work? Or is it a crime to pay workers less than S8.50 an hour for grueling work and short their wages or fire them …
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Violence Against Demonstrators Follows Contested Result in Honduras Elections
Students protesting what they claim are fraudulent election results in Honduras' presidential elections were met by police violence on Tuesday. Observers document voting irregularities.
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Tilting at Gas Wells: What’s the Best Way to Defend Your Community From Fracking?
The most effective fracking bans may be the ones that make the fewest rights claims.
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Why Health Care Isn’t Just About Insurance
As Epilepsy Awareness Month winds down, let's take on the class-based obstacles to seizure management.
The Empire Strikes Back: How Wall Street Has Turned Housing Into a Dangerous Get-Rich-Quick Scheme – Again
Wall Street has devised a new way to profit off the housing market - and this time it has nothing to do with risky mortgages.
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Germany’s Policies Become an Economic Anchor
The Germans are outraged, outraged at the United States Treasury Department, whose “Semiannual Report On International Economic and Exchange Rate Policies” says some negative things about how German macroeconomic …
Aftermath – The Vulgarity of Empire
The morning after Kennedy was buried, the country awoke to find a stranger in its bed. The indefatigable vulgarity of Lyndon Baines Johnson made unfavourable comparison inevitable.
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Justice Coalition For Slain Andy Lopez Founded
Over forty members of diverse groups met—many who had never been in a room together—on November 19 to strategize about how to keep the strong momentum going in response …
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Harry Potter & Martin Heidegger: Humility and the Authentic, Ethical Life
A review of Ontological Humility: Lord Voldemort and the Philosophers.
McDonald’s, Hollande and Future Government
With the undermining of the traditional trust-based brand, economic theory predicted two things would happen.