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Quick Thoughts on the Oscars
I love movies but I can't say that I love Hollywood.
Military Veteran Professor Analyzes and Criticizes New DoD Budget
Hagel's proposal is already receiving pushback from Congress.
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A Dilemma
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Obama’s Far Right Foreign Policy
In order to stop the never-ending warmongering of US foreign policy, the US government itself must be fundamentally transformed.
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Grounded Assessment
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Will Massachusetts Build a New Jail or Explore Alternatives to Bail?
Activists are pushing back against the proposed prison expansions in Massachusetts and advocating for implementing alternatives to relying on bail and pretrial incarceration.
Unintended – and Anti-Social – Consequences of Social Media Use
Social-media profits contribute to anti-social behavior, including tax avoidance, gentrification and big bucks to anti-democratic causes.
New Cases of Corporate Spying Bolster Troubling Trend: What Is Being Done About It?
Corporations and private intelligance firms are spying on whistleblowers, activists and journalists, but is anything being done to hold them to account?
JOBS, Again
The 21st century United States needs many services the private sector doesn't provide so well, such as preschool and post-secondary education and health and dental care.
The Stone That Brings Down Goliath? Richmond and Eminent Domain
Richmond's city council is only one vote short of the supermajority needed to pursue eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages and renegotiate them on behalf of homeowners, and it …