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How US Working Women Are Being Run Over
Women occupy jobs that are excluded from legal protections, making the workers very easy to exploit and underpay.
Carbon Tax or Carbon Market?
The most effective policy for slowing global warming would be a tax on carbon, according to climate economists.
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Free to Be a Free Rider
The northern victory in the American Civil War enabled political elites to forcibly subdue workers' collective attempts to address economic inequality under capitalism.
“Disposable Futures”: Critique of Violence
Exposing violence is not the same as being exposed to it, though the former too often comes as a result of the latter.
Fossil-Fuel Industry’s Heartland Institute Sending Team to Explain Climate to Pope Francis
The Heartland Institute is sending a team to Rome to explain to Pope Francis that global warming is “unequivocally good news.”
The Collateral Damage of Mass Incarceration
Bryan Stevenson makes a detailed, compelling and personal case that prisons in the United States are filled with victims of injustice.
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We Have a Supreme Court That Comforts the Comfortable and Afflicts the Afflicted
Millhiser has written a scathing indictment of how SCOTUS has undermined our rights.
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The Media’s Failure With the Biggest Story in the World
The mainstream media are largely to blame for the public's ignorance on climate change.
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New Perspectives on Why Cuba Matters
Tom Hayden provides examples of the price we have paid for isolating ourselves from Cuba.
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Imagining Social Justice as a Communal Process
Hate violence is inextricably bound to broader social and political systems.