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Writing Professor Under Fire For Attack Against Republicans: On the “Free Exchange Of Ideas“
What “free exchange of ideas” can exist in a society with such extreme disparities of power? And what can the MSU professor criticized for a classroom attack on Republicans …
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Is Fixing Stop-and-Frisk Worth the Bother?
Should we listen when former first deputy police commissioner of the NYPD John Timoney - now in the presumably lucrative employ of the authoritarian Gulf monarchy of Bahrain - …
Obama’s Climate Change Policies Are Imperialistic and Despotic
Subhankar Banerjee: The Obama administration's focus on oil extraction and emphasis on fracking is not addressing climate change.
Two Years After Occupy Wall Street, a Network of Offshoots Continues Activism for the 99%
Two years after the Occupy Wall Street movement shifted the conversation on economic inequality, Democracy Now! looks at its origins in New York City's Zuccotti Park and its continued …
The Perennial Bowel Movement
The u201cback to the basicsu201d movement is here, again. Doesnu2019t this remind you of the 1980s?
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Nina Davuluri is America’s Future
Nina Davuluri is the first Indian-American to hold the title of Miss America and it should be something for all Americans to celebrate.
The Dark Future of American Education: A Consideration of MOOCs
A distinguished educator considers how Massive open online courses may be a distinct improvement over traditional classroom course and how they could be devastatingly inferior to those programs.
Depreciation of the Rupee Points to India’s Need to Build Capital Controls, Participate in International Financial Rule-Making
The rupee plunged by 3.7 percent on the day in its biggest single-day percentage fall in more than two decades.
On Reinventing the Meaning of Politics and What Needs to Be Done
A global war to resurrect a sense of
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