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Op-Ed
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Time Banking: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
Ten years ago, Susan Dentzler of NPR was retained by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to investigate whether time banking (a system that lets people swap time and skill …
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Helping Cuban Reforms through Agricultural Trade
The freehold buying and selling of residential real property became legal in Cuba on November 10, 2010, marking a major milestone on the island’s road to economic liberalization.
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Don’t Sit This One Out – What’s Your Vision for Occupy Wall Street?
Filmmaker Michael Moore talks to protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement at Zuccotti Park in New York, Oct. 20, 2011. (Photo: Michael Kirby Smith / The New York …
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A Country of Inmates
Washington - One area where the United States indisputably leads the world is incarceration. The United States has 2.3 million people behind bars, almost one in every …
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Scapegoating School Bus Drivers in New York
New York's City Hall and Department of Education are pushing union school bus drivers and attendants toward a strike that would affect service for some 152,000 students, including 70,000 …
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Droning On
Someday soon, you'll be checking your new Clear Skies app as a routine part of your preparations to go out for the evening. First, you'll look at your smart …
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How Students Landed on the Front Lines of Class War
The deliberate pepper-spraying by campus police of nonviolent protesters at UC Davis on Friday has provoked national outrage. But the horrific incident must not cloud the real question: What …
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Droning On (2)
Capt. Steve Truhlar, left; Lt. Thomas Shuler; Adm. Jody Beckenridge; and a Predator B aircraft in Palmdale, Calif., on Dec. 7, 2009. (Photo: Ann Johansson / The New York …
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Bench Strength: Public Art Controversy Brought People Together for a Cause
During my time in Prescott, I had the opportunity to create a community bench as a senior project for Prescott College. I had seen many of these structures in …
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No Country for Young Children
When you call yourself a “historian,” you create the implication that you can speak authoritatively about, well, history. But last Friday, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich defied that common …