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Piketty’s New Class
Piketty's “Capital In the 21st Century” could ignite a new political conversation on the intertwining of caste and class, creating new kinds of movements against today's inheritance-based "US Gilded …
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William Rivers Pitt | Iraq, Two Bullets and the Long Arc of History
Two bullets in Sarajevo unleashed one hundred years of carnage. Some facile lies from a few American politicians may well have unleashed another hundred years of the same.
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Noam Chomsky | Whose Security? How Washington Protects Itself and the Corporate Sector
What happened when the Russian threat disappeared in 1989? Answer: everything continued much as before.
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Cutting Off Sex Work Advertising Sites Disrupts Communities, Not Trafficking
Shutting down advertising sites used by sex workers silences peer-to-peer harm reduction channels that help sex workers in the absence of formal services and does little to address trafficking.
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The Giant Methane Monster Lurking
There's something lurking deep under the frozen Arctic Ocean, and if it gets released, it could spell disaster for our planet.
Of Spanish Temples and Plato’s Tenets
It is apparent that in the centuries that have since passed, the indigenous peoples of the Andes such as those in Andahuaylillas were not necessarily persuaded towards what was …
Dreaming Life?
How could a nation as advanced as our own allow a few devious leaders to propagandize us into a phony attack on another nation that had nothing to do …
Crying for Freedom: Palestinian Youth Stand with Presbyterian Church
Violence and killing will not bring back the boys of the next generation.
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In the Valley of the Shadow of DACA for Immigrant Youth
Undocumented college students benefit temporarily from a new program protecting them from deportation, but a more permanent solution is needed.
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Will India Be the Uber of the Pharmaceutical Industry?
If the Indian drug industry makes the patent system unviable, we may finally adopt a 21st century system for financing the development of new drugs.