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The Midas Touch: Stomachs Too Big to Fail
[A longer version of this essay appears in “Food,” the Summer 2011 issue of Lapham's Quarterly and is posted at TomDispatch.com with the kind permission of that magazine.] …
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Winning Big in the Information Age
“Have you heard anything along that line?” Rajaratnam asked Gupta. “Yeah,” Gupta responded. “This was a big discussion at the board meeting.” -The Associated Press, May 12, 2011
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Class Struggle in Britain: Notes From London
(Photo: Mark Ramsay / Flickr) Class struggle is like gravity: we can recognize it only through its effects. When apples or wages fall, the forces of mass …
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America’s Energy Ethos: Do, Regardless of Harm
(Photo: Gilson Geoffrey / Flickr) Laugh me off as the idealistic son of a physician (which I am), but I still thought the doctor's ethos of "first …
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Think Outside the Bars: Real Justice Means Fewer Prisons
(Photo: Thiago Souto / Flickr) A white woman with gray hair pulled neatly into a bun raises her hand. She keeps it up, unwavering and rigid, as …
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The Perils of Ignoring Science
(Photo: dogsthatchasecars / Flickr) I heard a remarkable thing on the radio the other day and it had nothing to do with a congressman’s nether regions. …
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On War and Peace, the Senate Starts to Move
Sen. Jim Webb (D-Virginia) listens to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates speak during a Senate Armed Service Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 12, 2007. (Photo: Doug …
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Making the US Economy “Scream“
(Image: Lance Page / Truthout; Adapted: Terry Feuerborn, Gregory Hauenstein) Modern Republicans have a simple approach to politics when they are not in the White House: Make …
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Why the Budget Is the Wrong Thing to Fight About
The country is consumed right now with the fight over the Federal budget, specifically the plan of Rep. Ryan (R-Wisconsin) to balance it by (mostly) radically cutting spending on …
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Garden Helps Community Grow, Flower
As Prescott inches closer to realizing the longstanding aim of creating a bona fide community garden, there are a number of aspects to the story that merit additional attention. …