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The Other Occupation: How Wall Street Occupies Washington
The US Capitol Building, Washington DC. (Photo: drewsaunders) Wall Street did not engage in reckless financial behavior — which plunged 64 million people worldwide into extreme poverty …
What Regional Differences Mean for National Consensus
In American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, author Colin Woodard outlines eleven culturally distinct regions in the United States. (Image: Viking Adult) …
Anatomy of a Victory: Occupy Wall Street Wins a Big One
Demonstrators with the Occupy Wall Street protests raise brooms in the air on Wall Street in New York, Oct. 14, 2011. (Photo: Robert Stolarik / The New York Times) …
Why Privatizing the Golden Years Wouldn’t Work
Russ Gregory, 70, third from left, a retired Central Falls Fire Department captain, listens to Robert Flanders, a state-appointed receiver who is trying to right the cities finances, during …
The Public Option in Banking: Another Look at the German Model
Norddeutsche Landesbank, a public corporation by the federal states of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. (Photo: dierk schaefer) Publicly owned banks were instrumental in funding Germany's “economic miracle” …
The Death Penalty – Again
Princeton – Three significant events relating to the death penalty occurred in the United States during September. The one that gained the most publicity was the execution in Georgia …
News to Media: Republicans Have Not Answered Obama’s Call for an Actual Jobs Plan
One week after the President admonished Republicans for lacking a serious alternative to his American Jobs Act, Senate Republicans introduced what they call a “jobs” bill yesterday. ABC News, …
Top Ten Giveaways to Big Oil in Rick Perry’s “Jobs” Plans
Rick Perry. (Photo: Gage Skidmore / Flickr) Today, Rick Perry finally unveiled his much-anticipated “jobs” plan. The 41-page document, however, is less focused on creating jobs than …
Occupy Wall Street: People Power vs. the Police State
"The more, the merrier,” was how the white-shirted police inspector put it as he stood on the periphery of Liberty Plaza while activist and Rage Against the Machine guitarist …
As the Earth Turns: Going Global With Perennial Polyculture Agriculture
Wes Jackson spent the weekend at The Land Institute's annual Prairie Festival talking up - with his usual precision and passion - the science and strategy behind plans to …