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Mirror, Mirror: Who’s Really Behind the Lack of Gender, Sexual and Racial Diversity in Comics?
Who, exactly, keeps our media so homogeneous? Hint: It isn't the usual suspects.
As Fiscal Abyss Approaches, Some Cliff Notes on Washington
Legislators are likely to punt the deadline for cuts to the new Congress.
Did Big Money Really Lose This Election? Hardly
After the most money-drenched elections in history — with close to $6 billion spent on the 2012 presidential and Congressional races alone, by one estimate — big donors and …
So, What Now? Five Racial Justice Thinkers Make Sense of the Election
There was less swagger, but arguably more urgency as millions of people headed to the polls this week to re-elect President Barack Obama.
Elites Demanding Austerity Also Ignored Housing Bubble
We shouldn't trust the same people who ignored the housing bubble when they tell us we need to more cuts to social programs.
COINTELPRO 101 (Part 2)
COINTELPRO, the secret FBI project to infiltrate and disrupt domestic organizations thought to be u201csubversive,u201d targeted many African-American, Native-American, and other movements for self-determination by people of color in …
From Argentina to Greece: A Global Roller-Coaster
The clearest lesson to draw from these cases: international creditors will always push as far they can. The debtors may be afraid of the costs of default only until …
Director of Investment at Bank Welfare Queen Citigroup is Selling Catfood Futures Hard
This long-planned betrayal might finally wake them up to the actual policies, as opposed to the persona, that they voted for. Read more at https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/11/peter-orszag-of-bank-welfare-queen-citigroup-is-selling-catfood-futures-hard.html#dsWiK3WkyKIODZ5G.99
Labor Mortgages Future on Obama
Even UEu2019s Townsend, who is less optimistic than most labor leaders that Obama will be a labor ally in his second term, says unions still needed to get out …
Wall Street Offers a Second Career for Former Politicians
The revolving door is in full swing in Congress as ousted politicians find lucrative jobs on Wall Street.