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Why Americans Like Socialism
Americans overwhelmingly support either pure socialism, or at least the next best thing - Swedish-style social democracy.
Retail Means Jobs, but Those Jobs Shouldn’t Mean Poverty
Retail jobs may be keeping workers from rising up the career ladder, exacerbating our country's growing inequality.
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Nickel and Dimed in 2016: You Can’t Earn a Living on the Minimum Wage
Holding a job should not be a test of how to manage life as one of the working poor.
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Florida Legislators Quietly Vote to Strip State Funding From Groups Associated With BDS
A bill in the Florida Legislature is an attempt to quash the growing momentum of the BDS movement on US college campuses.
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How “Pharma-Bro” Martin Shkreli Encapsulates the World’s View of the United States
It is easy to find similarities between the perception of his actions and international views of the US.
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Grandma Drone Resister’s Letter From Jail
Ithaca Catholic Worker Mary Anne Grady Flores' first letter after being arrested for taking pictures at a drone site.
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“Homegrown Witch Hunt”: My Brother, the US Government and the “War on Terror”
A new film follows several families affected by the “war on terror.”
“The Right to the City”: Participatory Cooperatives, Housing and Budgets
The “right to the city” is the collective right to redefine ourselves and how we relate to one another and the places we live.
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Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton and the Money
Many politicians identify with the interests of the rich and powerful so that they don't even see themselves as compromising a principle.
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Sanders’ Media Critics Should Concede That Fixing the US Is a Foreign Policy
If we want to break the power of the Pentagon-industrial complex in the Middle East, we have to break its power in Washington.