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Op-Ed
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Something That Changed My Perspective: Karl Polanyi’s “The Great Transformation“
“The Great Transformation” is audacious: it seeks to explain the 100 years of the absence of large-scale international conflict (1815 to 1914) and why it blew apart so ferociously …
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Thomas Merton and the Synergy of Christianity and Buddhism
Beyond just simple theology, the similarities between Buddhism and Christiniaty go much deeper, including but not limited to their respective origins.
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Why Movements Should Care About Azealia Banks
The #BlackLivesMatter movement is quickly creating a national context whereby celebrities across industries are being forced to take sides.
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Dean Baker | Does the University of Michigan’s New Football Coach Need Food Stamps?
It turns out that the taxpayer subsidy to Jim Harbaugh is equal to an awful lot of food stamps.
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The Republicans Didn’t Really Win the Senate
Whether it's through amending the Constitution or breaking up the states, a change needs to happen.
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Port Strikes Mirror Organized Labor’s Roots
Port truck drivers are denied the very same employment rights that workers in the first Gilded Age fought so hard to achieve.
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Addiction, Mental Health, Safe Spaces and Stigmatization
“I have tried to speak to these issues in community, but very few of us speak to them loudly enough.”
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The McMindfulness Craze: The Shadow Side of the Mindfulness Revolution
If meditation ordinarily leads to numbing detachment, what would a meditation that valued self-discovery look like?
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Carrots for Cuba, Sticks for North Korea
As one cold war thaws, another refreezes.
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A Flat-Footed Backflip for Wall Street
Congress gave its bankster buddies an overly generous holiday gift.