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Four-Day Workweeks: Change for the Better?
Reducing worktimes with no reduction in pay is a perfectly viable economic development strategy.
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Code Black: Murder, Mass Incarceration, Militarization and Genocide in Progress
“Instead of lynchings, we now enjoy the spectacle of the fraternal-order-of-police executing blacks and browns as sport.”
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It’s Time for the US Middle Class to Make a Comeback
It's time to repudiate Reaganomics, so the American middle class can make a comeback.
Two Afghan Stories
There's a lesson here about folly, if only we would care to draw it.
A Tipping Point for the Good
In the Chesapeake Bay region, we're on the front lines of climate change.
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The GOP Continues Its Condescending Outreach to Female Voters
Talking down to women isn't just a Texas GOP thing.
William Rivers Pitt | War Eternal: One Man Gathers What Another Man Spills
President Obama and his administration have been dancing as fast as they can to explain why this newest chapter in the Iraq war can be called legal without fully …
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100 Zephyrs: Why the Left Must Challenge Corporate Democrats
If there is no pressure from the left, political debate will continue to shift ever rightward, just as it has under Bill Clinton and during Obama's first term.
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Stupid Stuff
The Middle East wars, Guantanamo and the unconditional support of Israel are ongoing examples of “stupid stuff.”
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Hands Up! Don’t Shoot! Death and Visibility in Black America
Black “innocence” always has to be proven and depends on attaining a “respectability” defined by white mores and the white gaze.