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Fast-Food Protests Go Global
It is easy to understand why workers are protesting an industry that has become known for poverty wages and poor working conditions.
India Poll 2014: The US Endorsement Keeps BJP Happy
The votes have been cast in India's general elections and predictions are that the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies will form the next government.
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Beyond Marriage: Advocates Call on Obama Administration to Combat LGBTQ Criminalization
Despite the media hype, marriage equality is not the top issue on every agenda in the LGBTQ world.
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Global Warming
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Navigating Back to Segregation
Race? What race?
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Building a Movement for Happiness
Vermont and Bhutan have embraced happiness rather than GDP as a measure of social success.
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Why Do Police Unions in New York Want to Repeal the End Discriminatory Profiling Act?
Unknown to many, the NYPD was already “banned” from racial profiling by an obscure municipal provision called Introductory Number 142-B.
How Parasite Corporations Like Pfizer Are Chucking US Citizenship to Escape From Taxes
Relocating to a country with a lower tax rate is one way giant corporations like Pfizer disregard their fellow Americans.
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It’s True: An Economy Can Be Damaged by Too Little Spending
Shouldn't it be easier to sell win-win ideas, which will make everyone (or almost everyone) better off? Well, it would be if the public “got” Keynesian economics.
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Jackson Rising: Black Millionaires Won’t Lift Us Up, but Cooperation and the Solidarity Economy Might
The myth of wealthy and powerful African Americans creating wealth for the rest of the community doesn't, and never did, work.