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Calvin and Jobs: Why the Right Hates (but Still Needs) Social Welfare
Calvinism's embrace of wealth as a sign of divine election lives on in the red state/blue state religious and social welfare divides.
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Political Corruption and Capitalism
Corruption is endemic to the capitalist system and has not been successfully regulated away. Perhaps a system change is warranted, suggests Richard D Wolff.
The Shriveling State of the Union
To hear his fifth State of Union address, an uninformed listener might think America's problems are limited and manageable.
Open Letter to WV Inmates: Beware of Private Prisons Before Signing Away Your Rights
The prisoners themselves would play a critical role in making this scheme by having to sign away their right to be incarcerated and rehabilitated within the state of West …
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From Egypt to Afghanistan: Free Woman, Free World
You know that women are half of the human race, and they can change the future by raising a free new generation.
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Iraq: Revisiting the Pottery Barn Rule
In Iraq, the US broke a nation of human beings, and it owes them an apologyu2013and restitution.
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State of the Union Only Tells Half the Story on Women
It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a “Mad Men” episode.
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Transforming Our Dark Affinities
In “Dark Affinities,” Joseph Natoli opened up a major, unrecognized line of thinking that identifies an
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MOOCs and the Democratization of Online Education
As presently structured, MOOCs are unable to provide the transformative education democracy requires.
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Bully Nation
“The individual bully is the creation of the bully nation,” according to sociologists Yale Magrass and Charles Derber, who note that bullying Chris Christie-style is a product of a …