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What Happened to Canada?
Police confront protesters outside 2010's G-20 meeting in Toronto, Canada, June 25, 2010. (Photo: G20 Protest Photos) What happened to Canada? It used to be the country …
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We Have Every Right to Be Furious About ACTA
If there’s one thing that encapsulates what’s wrong with the way government functions today, ACTA is it. You wouldn’t know it from the name, but the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is a plurilateral …
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Teachers Inject Their Own Message Into Union-Busters’ Twitter Campaign
In the last year, the national education debate has been occupied by economists, billionaires, hedge-fund managers, corporate columnists and party-politicians –indeed, it seems like the further a person is …
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What Is Private Equity?
Recently, a lot of the political debate has been about whether private equity—and by extension Mitt Romney—is good or bad. The argument on one side is that private equity …
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How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the “One Percent“
Swedish flag. (Photo: morberg) While many of us are working to ensure that the Occupy movement will have a lasting impact, it’s worthwhile to consider other countries …
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All Rousseau’s Fault!
La faute à Rousseau!#[1] - so goes the refrain of the famous song of Hugo’s famous heroic street urchin Gavroche in Les Misérables, the first part of which runs …
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Can the Schneiderman-Infused Financial Fraud Unit Prosecute Vikram Pandit? (2)
There are two underlying structural problems with the new(ish) Federal task force on financial fraud. One, it is the policy of the administration to protect the banking system’s basic architecture, …
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Buying Our Future
Already, four of the top GOP presidential contenders have dropped out. Michele Bachmann went first, because she was too wacky, followed by Jon Huntsman, because he was too sane. …
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Four Psychologists at the Gates of Hell: A Fable for Our Time
A Guard in a cell block at Camp 6, Camp Delta, located at the Guantanamo Naval Station in Cuba, in October, 2007. (Photo: Todd Heisler / The New York …
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Avoiding a Catastrophic War With Iran
Pray cooler heads will guide America in the dialogue and decision-making over Iran’s position in the world. Iran does not have nuclear weapons, and there is no certain evidence …