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Big Data’s Big Image Problem
This week the White House completes its big data policy review. Improving public perception of “big data” requires more than another report: Organizations need to improve transparency, be more …
Wolves of Wall Street: Financialization and American Inequality
It's no secret by now that the recent spike in American inequality is driven in large part by “financialization,” the growing scale of the financial sector relative to the …
Protecting the Right’s Stranglehold Over Union Elections
Anti-union organizations and consultants dominated NLRB hearings on its new election rules, and their testimony revealed they want to make it as difficult as possible for workers to choose …
Conversation With James Risen: Can Journalists Protect Their National Security Sources?
The New York Times reporter James Risen is in a waiting game with the Department of Justice and the Supreme Court, and the fate of a journalist's right to …
Intergovernmental Climate Report Leaves Hopes Hanging on Fantasy Technology
The lastest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report includes a chapter on mitigation strategies that are problematic at best.
Jersey City Man Shot in the Face and Blinded by Police Faces 30 Years in Prison
The story of 18-year-old Kwadir Felton, shot in the face and blinded by Police Sergeant Thomas McVicar, then convicted of aggravated assault of an officer, repeats a too-familiar pattern.
They Are Watching You: The National Security State and the US-Mexican Border
With massive growth and robust financing, with ever increasing budgets and resources, US Customs and Border Protection is reshaping the country - and the world.
Radical Philosophy and the Free Alabama Movement
The Free Alabama Movement (FAM) seeks to analyze, resist, and transform prison slavery from within the Prison Industrial Complex.
Defending Kickbacks
An upcoming SEC decision has the brokerage industry up in arms.
BP Gets an Anniversary Gift From the Obama Administration
The EPA ruled that BP could start bidding on lucrative new oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico nearly four years after the Deepwater Horizon explosion.