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How US Health Care Turned Patients Into Consumers
The concept of health care primarily as a business is uniquely American, and it has gained ascendancy during the last few decades.
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Immigrant Workers Are Being Deported for Getting Injured on the Job
When bosses profit from exploiting immigrants, society bears the cost.
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McDonald’s Workers: Not Lovin’ It®
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Everyone’s Asking the Wrong Questions About Health Care in the US
How is it that a 25-cent piece of plastic and copper came to cost almost $1,000 in the US?
Women Up in Arms: Zapatistas and Rojava Kurds Embrace a New Gender Politics
Men and women traverse spaces of war as well as of pastoral, agricultural and domestic care.
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The Increasing Concentration of Capital Precludes Democracy
The US and most European governments now exist to serve the needs of an oligarchy.
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Fitness Devices Make It Harder to Lie to Ourselves
You might say that the truth will show up on the scale and your waistline eventually.
Biden’s Solution to Central American Migration Overlooks CAFTA Damage
Many of the region's policy analysts are not enthused about the plan, with one calling it “more of the same.”
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Internal Documents Reveal Extensive Industry Influence Over EPA’s National Fracking Study
In 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched an ambitious and highly consequential study of the risks that hydraulic fracturing.
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Why the Walmart Pay Raise Matters
Was Walmart's decision an act of kindness? Possibly. But Aiha Nguyen says employees, fast-food workers, the labor movement and families fueled the change for higher wages.