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Op-Ed
All You Need for a Financial Crisis…
Art Wilmarth thinks it's important to understand exactly what went wrong at what was, relatively recently, Americau2019s largest bank.
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State of the Union: Obama’s Underwhelming Plan to Tackle Inequality
Are we living in a land of small opportunity?
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The Salinas Project
Every day, Americans eat produce that is handpicked by immigrant farm workers in this area, but few understand the challenges the farm workers and their children face.
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How Thousands of Chemicals Can Hide in Your Drinking Water
It turns out that public drinking water is not as well inspected as we may have imagined.
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Pete Seeger: Beating Flagpoles Into Ploughshares
Pete Seeger, RIP and God bless. As you used to say, take it easy, but take it.
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The Dutch Weed Burger: Vegan Fast Superfood
In-vitro meat has been hyped as being a solution to fast-depleting resources and a growing population, but the real solution lies in plant-based food.
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Hollande Takes a Wrong Turn
Paul Krugman: “France, like much of Europe, seems to be flirting with deflation and very much at risk of falling into a scenario similar to that of Japan.”
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Problems of Eurozone, European Integration Stem From Deeply Unpopular Elite Economic, Social Policy
The imposition of deeply anti-democratic neoliberal austerity policies - not the Eurozone per se - undermines the political legitimacy of the European Union.
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Why George Lucas, Eric Schmidt, (and Yes, Steve Jobs) Should Go to Jail: Conspiring to Reduce Wages of 100,000 Tech Pros
Silicon Valley's royalty occupy a class of their own, the toast of TED talks and the model for aspiring entrepreneurs the world over.
A Dream Deferred: “This Rigid Refusal to Look at Ourselves”
“Harlem” remains a powerful and necessary questionu2014and a disturbing harbinger, as Hughes answers his opening question with more questions.