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Smartphone Users Are Paying for Their Own Surveillance
The more adamantly vendors offer assurances about protection, the more skeptical people should become.
Nearly 20,000 Domestic Workers Are About to Get Fair Wages. How’d They Do That?
Left out by traditional unions, women-led domestic workers are winning fights for minimum wage and overtime across the country.
Document Dump: Lawsuit Reveals Extent of DuPont’s C8 Cover-Up
The case alleges that DuPont officials were intimately aware of the dangerous side effects of C-8 exposure but still decided to allow exposure among workers.
Another Koch Criminal Justice Reform Trojan Horse: Reentry and Privatization
In the Koch world of free market fundamentalism, there is always a way for corporations (and academics) to get a piece of pie.
The Truth About For-Profit Colleges and Trump University
While there are some parallels, Trump University is not representative of for-profit higher education.
Dean Baker | The Secret to the Incredible Wealth of Bill Gates
It's called “copyright protection.”
The 1% Have Always Ruled the United States
Sadly overlooked in the political debate about the current state of inequality is that it is not new.
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Can the Sanders Campaign Build a Progressive Alternative to the US Establishment?
The presidential race is morphing into a dramatic clash between the establishment and the mass dissent.
Growing Movement to Exit EU: An Interview With Antti Pesonen of Finland’s Independence Party
Former chairman of Finland's Independence Party Antti Pesonen discusses the growing movement in favor of a eurozone exit for Finland.
Constructing Visions of “Perpetual Peace”: An Interview With Noam Chomsky
One of the most disturbing and dangerous developments is the growing insulation of the elite from any system of democratic accountability.