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Obama Convenes Saturday Meeting on Syria
President Obama will discuss allegations that the Syrian government used chemical weapons.
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The Shutdown of ERT and Greece’s Media Landscape: a Modern-Day Wild Wild West
The history of Greek broadcast media relations with the government reflects attempts at authoritarian control.
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In Deference to Great Men: Aaron Sorkin vs. the Occupy Movement
HBO's “The Newsroom,” in examining the Occupy movement, operated exactly like the media it is trying to critique.
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Things to Know as Collapse Becomes Hip
Economists never seem to connect the eco in economy to the eco in ecosystem; but as financial, economic, and climate collapse continues, people must rise to change our world's …
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Markets Aren’t That Stupid
In finance, there are rarely battles between good and evil. Instead, you have battles of, say, greedy and corrupt versus greedy and ruthless.
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Those Not-So-Good Old Days
Paul Krugman: When it comes to useful economic analysis, these are the good old days.
Expect “Massive Resistance” to Stop-and-Frisk Ruling
More Blacks and Latinos have been accosted by police on the streets of New York since 2004 than actually live in city. Stop-and-frisk, as practiced by the NYPD, is …
What We Know Now (and How It Doesn’t Matter)
Well into the second decade of the twenty-first century, then, education reform continues a failed tradition of honoring messaging over evidence.
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A Big Victory for Oregon’s Biggest Union
The state workers of Oregon's largest union, SEIU 503, recently stood firm and scored a big win in their contract negotiations against the state's anti-union Democratic governor.
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GOP in Fantasyland
No matter how contemptuous they may be about Obamacare, opponents have only two viable options: Repeal it or get over it.