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Remembering Maurice Sendak
Author and illustrator Maurice Sendak died yesterday at the age of 83. Sendak has been called the Picasso of children’s literature, and godfather to generations of readers. His landmark book, Where the …
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Firefox Creators Mozilla Attack Congress; Denounce CISPA
Mozilla's Firefox browser logo. (Image: Mozilla) Silicon Valley’s Mozilla Corporation has tasked themselves with extinguishing a fire, and no, it’s not what you have in mind. Mozilla, the Mountain …
Plutonomy and the Precariat: On the History of the US Economy in Decline
The fact that the Occupy movement is unprecedented is quite appropriate. After all, it’s an unprecedented era and has been so since the 1970s, which marked a major turning …
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America’s Shame: The US Government’s Human Trafficking Dilemma
For Vinnie Tuivaga, the offer was the answer to a prayer: A job in a luxury hotel in Dubai—the so-called Las Vegas of the Persian Gulf—making five times what …
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The Group Trying to Swift Boat Obama
President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign event at the Washington Convention Center, in Washington, April 27, 2012. (Photo: Luke Sharrett / The New York Times) A secretive right-wing …
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Austerity as a Bridge to Nowhere
Washington, D.C. - Economic austerity is a dangerous, self-defeating intellectual fad. Perhaps I should say that's what it was, given Sunday's election results in Europe. Perhaps I should also …
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Neo-Nazi Party Plots Rise as First Effort to Form New Greek Government Fails
Athens - Election advertisements for Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn party called for “taking the dirt out of the country,” “cleaning up Athens” and planting landmines along the borders to …
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Corruption Accounts for as Much As 14 Dollars Out of Every Tank of Gas
(Photo: jcarlosn)You pay a hidden premium every time they fill up your gas tank. The prices are high at the gas station, but part of the price you pay …
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Nuns Feed the Poor
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