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Local Fights Against Austerity Are Growing Across the US
You cannot lift up a nation's economy while slashing away at its consumers' pocketbooks.
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What Is the Crash Generation?
Millennials who came of age during the Great Recession could reshape the American economy.
A Strike Is a Strike and Only a Strike
Ann Hodges and Ellen Dannin show how courts eroded employee power with a legal quagmire where strikes are risky.
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New York’s Zoning Ban Movement Fracks Big Gas
Frackivists won victories when an appellate court upheld the right to use zoning laws to ban gas drilling.
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Oaxacan Teachers Challenge the Test
The testing regime in Mexico is as entrenched as it is in the United States.
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The SF LGBT Pride Committee Has Nothing to Be Proud of Over Bradley Manning
Glenn Greenwald's article in The Guardian titled “Bradley Manning is off limits at SF Gay Pride parade, but corporate sleaze is embraced” has internationally publicized the cowardly decision of …
In Praise of Richard Falk
Shortly after the 15 April 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, Richard Falk, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in …
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The Cure
Cancer cells don't know they are cancerous! Though this may be an obvious fact even a so what fact to many, if we think more critically about this we …
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CNN Has Not “Jumped the Shark,” It is the Shark
Cable news networks thrive on tragedy. That's nothing new. What is new is the incredible, monomaniacal programming mantra that has taken over CNN—the ever-more inane and dementia-addled granddaddy of …
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One Hospital Charges $8,000 … Another Charges $38,000?
In major cities across our nation, the range of prices for similar or the same medical procedures looks more like the ups and downs in the wildly volatile stock …