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GOP Still Worried About “Those People“
The current Republican obsession with attacking programs that benefit Americans in need, ranging from food stamps to health care reform, isn't about some philosophical commitment to small government; after …
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Public Intellectuals Against the Neoliberal University
To the extent that universities do not fight to be safely ensconced at the
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Time for America to Be a Level Playing Field Again
The lack of income equality in the New York City is a microcosm of our economic crisis as a whole.
Hymn to the Koch Brothers
Donu2019t be ashamed, my Koch Brothers; the world is full of students whou2019ve begun to lose a grip on their bladders.
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Drone Island in the East River
Here is the real danger: We're making murder in its most recognizable form acceptable.
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19 Young Activists Changing America
These activists know that the radical ideas of one generation are often the common-sense ideas of the next: They are practical idealists.
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Chris Hedges | Our Invisible Revolution
Until Americans stop putting their faith in systems that only harm them, we will continue to suffer from the pressures of capitalism.
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Mike Lofgren | The Revolt of the Lower Middle Class and the Stupidity of the Elites
Why do Tea Party adherents favor policies that are often directly counter to their economic interests?
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Even the Dead Travel in the Age of Globalization
“'Til death do us part,” that age-old marriage vow, has always sounded a little, well, non-committal to Confucian ears. In Vietnam, for instance, where I come from, death is …
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Myth Busting the Smear Campaign Against Social Security
With the interim ‘debt ceiling/government shutdown’ agreement reached last week between the Obama administration and the Teaparty-driven U.S. House of Representatives, the real negotiations on deficit cutting—aka Austerity American …