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Closing the Wealth Gap
Although the wage gap between white and African-American workers remains wide, it has been shrinking. But that's not so for the more significant black and white wealth gap. A …
News in Brief: Iranian Nuclear Scientist Claims Kidnapping by CIA, and More
An Iranian nuclear scientist, who has been missing for over a year, surfaced at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington Tuesday, saying he had been abducted by the CIA. Shahram …
The Disappearing Intellectual in the Age of Economic Darwinism
We live at a time that might be appropriately called the age of the disappearing intellectual, a disappearance that marks with disgrace a particularly dangerous period in American history. …
The Hidden Casualties of the Great Recession
The June labor market report announced that the unemployment rate is down from 9.7 to 9.5 percent and 83,000 private-sector jobs were created in June. Unfortunately, the situation isn’t …
Proposals to Cut Social Security Benefits Will Significantly Impact Retirement Income for Low- and Middle-Class Retirees
Washington, D.C. - Despite the fact that Social Security is fully funded through 2039, there have been calls to cut Social Security benefits in an effort to reduce the …
Look to Women to End Conflict in Kyrgyzstan
"Even now, I can't find the words to explain the kinds of horrors that are happening,” wrote Nurjan Tulegabylova with El Agartuu, a women’s organization based in Kyrgyzstan. “There …
Leslie Griffith | Rachel Maddow Takes Us Back to the Future
Every June, I leave my Northern California home and head south to our annual Gulf Coast family reunion. I might as well be an alien visiting from another planet. …
Could a “Great Negotiation” End the War in Afghanistan?
A commonly proffered argument against negotiations to end the war in Afghanistan has been: “Why should the Afghan Taliban negotiate, when they think they are winning?” For many months, …
Israeli Military: “Mistakes Were Made” in Deadly Flotilla Raid
Tel Aviv, Israel - An Israeli military investigation into Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla concluded Monday that there were “no failures, but mistakes were made.” Nine activists, …
Ten Things That Feminism Could Do Better
Feminism should realign itself with social justice and avoid reducing all questions of women's lives to issues of sexuality and sexual behavior.