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Best-Selling Author Thomas Frank Reads From His New Book, “Pity the Billionaire”
Thomas Frank, formerly an opinion writer for The Washington Post as well as a current monthly columnist for Harper's, is the founder of the journal The Baffler and the …
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Blood Feud: The Man Who Blew the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever
(Image: Dutton Adult) Prologue In the moments before she became a widow, veiled in blood, Sharon Lenox was happier than she’d been in ages. Her fifty-four-year-old husband, …
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“Sister Citizen”: Black Women in a Crooked Room
(Image: Yale University Press) Zora Neale Hurston writes Janie Mae Crawford as an irrepressibly independent woman. Janie leaves the economic security of her emotionally deadening first marriage …
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Community, Technology Can Alleviate Loneliness, Invisibility of Elders and Their Caretakers
For the near term, the adult sons and daughters of aging parents hold an important key that will determine whether any new model of eldercare is embraced widely in …
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EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want (2)
White pine trees along a trail at the Adirondack Park Visitor Interpretive Center. (Photo: Ruth Fremson / The New York Times) Seeing this bumper sticker on my …
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State Power and Democracy: Before and During the Presidency of George W. Bush
(Courtesy: Palgrave-Macmillan)
Restoring Government, of, by and for the People
Rescinding corporate personhood is the first step toward a larger vision of reclaiming and reinvigorating democracy around the world.
If We End Corporate Personhood We Can Define the Terms of a New Economy
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Although the increasingly unrestrained marketplace that Teddy Roosevelt and Louis Brandeis warn of makes it hard for many companies to emphasize community …
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This Changes Everything: How the 99% Woke Up
Something happened in September 2011 so unexpected that no politician or pundit saw it coming. Inspired by the Arab Spring and uprisings in Europe, sparked by a …
The Need to Relocalize Our Economies
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) For some people, particularly the young and the old, the local mall or big-box retailer or superstore is an important part of …