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Learning to Love Torture, Zero Dark Thirty-Style
The sad fact is that Zero Dark Thirty could have been written by the tight circle of national security advisors who counseled President George W. Bush to create the …
TSA Union Gets Sacramento Airport Privatization Revoked: County Board Votes to Rescind Airport Privatization Approval
fter close to one year of lobbying efforts and a public campaign, the American Federation of Government Employees—the union for TSA workers in Sacramento and nationwide—today applauded the Sacramento …
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The Grime Behind the Crime
Could an astonishing explanation for the rise and fall of violent crime be correct?
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The Sacred Cow of American Tax Spending
2012 headlines were full of horrible depressing news: cuts on the federal, state, county and the city level. The nation was subjected to a full time diet of descriptions …
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World Bank’s IFC Arm Responds to Our Critique of Its Poverty Fighting
The IFC responds to a recent critique written by the staff at ProPublica.
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If They Come for Us in the Morning: An Open Letter to Detroiters from Elected School Board Members
I am writing to you to fill in the silence of the sheep. The sheep I refer to here are the mass media, printed or electronic, and local elected …
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Managers’ Liberation in Michigan: The Ideology of “Right to Work”
Something is happening in Michigan. After a failed attempt in the 2012 election to make collective bargaining a right under Michigan's constitution, Republicans fast-tracked a “right-to-work” law enabling employees …
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For Whom the Opening Bell Tolls: Reflecting on the Pulse of a Capitalist Nation
Check on virtually any mainstream news source and you can view the Dow's numbers on open trading, the Dow's high, its low, and the Volume of trading, just to …
Haiti by the Numbers, Three Years Later
Here are some statistics on the status of Haiti three years after the horrific earthquake that killed thousands.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place, or Up Against the Wall?
A friend who teaches in the social sciences–but not economics–wrote: “Did you read this Marty Feldstein piece in the WSJ yesterday? I know bupkes about Fed policy, but it seems to …