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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 …
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Vultures’ Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Carnivores
Greg Palast. (Photo: Dutton Adult) It’s all my fault, because I’m such a cheap bastard. I was told to rent a white van, something nondescript that painters …
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“Kill the Messenger” Chronicles Media’s Role in Conflicts From Rwanda to Mexico
(Image: Prometheus Books) Karl Marx was not a militant on the barricades but a journalist who wrote frequently for the New York Herald Tribune on great issues …
End Corporate Personhood
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Arizona changed its law after 1886 so that the word person would include nonliving as well as living legal entities: “‘Person’ includes …