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Whose Housing Recovery?
News of the housing recovery often implies that the real-estate market is becoming healthy, however investors seem to be the one benefiting from this rebound more than the average …
Barack Obama’s Economic Legacy: His Four Must-Have Items
I’ve been writing about Obama’s Legacy Tour (sorry, his second term) from time to time without focusing on the legacy itself. So this post will lay down a marker …
Back to Bracero: The Death of the Chicano Left
As immigration reform continues to sit on the back burner the question stands, where is the voice of the radical chicano left?
Republicans Come To Silicon Valley To Offer Corruption For Cash
Republicans in Silicon Valley are proposing a simple trade: money for tax breaks and cheap imported labor.
Making Disaster Pay: From the San Francisco Earthquake to Superstorm Sandy, How Capitalism Stacks the Deck on Disaster
“One man’s disaster was another’s main chance,” writes Fraser as he discusses America's sordid history with distaster capitalism.
Uncomfortable Questions in the Wake of Nuclear Accidents at Fukushima and Chernobyl
Ten questions we need to ask to make sure another nuclear meltdown like this one never happens again.
Under the International Spotlight, Mexican Government Asks for “Friendly Solution” After Perpetrating Sexual Torture
The case has serious implications for the perpetration of sexual violence by police everywhere.
A Forest of Poisonous Trees: The US Criminal (In)Justice System
The US criminal justice system has transformed into a tool of the national security state.
How the Pentagon Corrupted Afghanistan
Operation Enduring Freedom mutated into Operation Enduring Corruption.
Can Oxygen-Pricing Help Save the Environment?
A study just published in Science, the most comprehensive “Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 Years” ever done, shows that recent warming has been "amazing …