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Jim Hightower: Five Million Missing American Workers
We need a national ‘milk carton’ campaign to spread awareness of these lost workers.
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Seven Things Veterans Need More Than a Holiday
If the US were really committed to its troops after they complete their tours of duty, why are veterans facing so many hardships back at home?
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Investment in Manufacturing and Infrastructure Is Seed Corn of Economy
Making (and growing) things to sell to others is the key to prosperity, a middle class and a positive trade balance.
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The Future in a Dazzling Shanghai
The biggest winner from the US government shutdown and near credit default may be China as it pushes for a “de-Americanized” world economy, a future on display in a …
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Heartless for the Holidays: Why Do Rich and Powerful People Engage in Callous Behavior?
This holiday season, kids in America's poorest families will have less to eat.
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Four Signs That Regular Folks Can Still Win (and One That Shows the Power of Money)
Here are four cases in Tuesday's election where people power won out over corporate interests. And one that went the other way.
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Guns but No Butter
The Right's war on the poor rages on, but as food stamps are slashed, Congress lavishes money on military projects that are judged wasteful or useless.
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Capitalism and the Destruction of Life on Earth: Six Theses on Saving the Humans
Why are we, as a species, marching toward disaster? The problem is that large corporations are destroying life on Earth.
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Attention Spans and Histories of Racial Violence
The films, “The Butler” and “Fruitvale Station” provide complementary windows on the history of racial violence in the United States, says Palumbo-Liu.
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Bam. Bam. Bam. The Lostness of Man
The story of this life, this country, this world is a history of falsity masquerading as knowledge.