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Surveillance State and This Year’s “High-Risk” Boston Marathon
After last year's violence, this year's Boston Marathon will be a “high-risk event,” but that should not justify any and all intrusions by the surveillance state.
Pot Economics: What’s the Future of the American Marijuana Market?
For the broader legalized market, the future may come sooner than some might think, given how much interest has been stoked by the ongoing experiments in Colorado and Washington.
Dr. Anthony Monteiro and the Struggle for the Soul of African-American Studies at Temple
The black radical professor tells his version of the events that led to his ouster from Temple University's African-American Studies department.
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Workplace Democracy
We need a whole new approach to labor law in the United States that provides workers more freedom and democracy in the workplace.
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Celebrating Resistance on the Anniversary of South Africa’s First Democratic Vote
On the 20th anniversary of the first democratic vote in South Africa, it is the resistance and real democratic progress of the time that should be celebrated, says John …
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William Rivers Pitt | “WTF Bombs?”: Taking Back the Boston Marathon
"Boston is recovering, but has not yet recovered. All of us who were in the city on that terrible day, and the days that followed, are changed for having …
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Paul Krugman | The Lack of Courage Among Policymakers
The nature of our current economic situation is that smart policy requires that you ignore what supposedly responsible people, who sound as if they know what they're talking about …
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Why Ordinary Citizens Have No Say
The US could be at the forefront of creating a global green economy that runs on renewable energy. Unfortunately, we can't beat our addiction to big money.
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Budgets As Moral Documents, Nuclear Weapons and the Fate of Life
Budgets are moral documents and are supposed to represent the people's priorities.