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Why Is Syria Under Attack?
The story about chemical weapons turns out to be different than first thought, and with other arguments appearing to play a leading role in the battle for Syria.
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Debating Capitalism – Redefining Outdated Terms
Old definitions of capitalism, socialism and communism stymie attempts to transition to economic forms that will better serve people and society.
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The Emperor’s New Suit In The Garden Of Eden, and Other Wild Guesses or, Why Can’t Napoleon Chagnon Prove Anything?
With his work “Noble Savages,” anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon is key to the recent revival of the “Brutal Savage” myth, but fellow anthropologist Stephen Corry says Chagnon offers no evidence …
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Writing Professor Under Fire For Attack Against Republicans: On the “Free Exchange Of Ideas“
What “free exchange of ideas” can exist in a society with such extreme disparities of power? And what can the MSU professor criticized for a classroom attack on Republicans …
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Is Fixing Stop-and-Frisk Worth the Bother?
Should we listen when former first deputy police commissioner of the NYPD John Timoney - now in the presumably lucrative employ of the authoritarian Gulf monarchy of Bahrain - …
The Perennial Bowel Movement
The u201cback to the basicsu201d movement is here, again. Doesnu2019t this remind you of the 1980s?
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Nina Davuluri is America’s Future
Nina Davuluri is the first Indian-American to hold the title of Miss America and it should be something for all Americans to celebrate.
The Dark Future of American Education: A Consideration of MOOCs
A distinguished educator considers how Massive open online courses may be a distinct improvement over traditional classroom course and how they could be devastatingly inferior to those programs.
Depreciation of the Rupee Points to India’s Need to Build Capital Controls, Participate in International Financial Rule-Making
The rupee plunged by 3.7 percent on the day in its biggest single-day percentage fall in more than two decades.
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Squeezing More Profits from Crummy Tomatoes
The tomato isnu2019t the only target of this academic-industrial complex.