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What We Do: A Comic About Women in the Labor Force
The last installment of Ladydrawers looked at gendered discrepencies in media hiring practices (catch up on all the strips here) and how the gender of the labor pool might …
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Why the Kochs Matter
Charles and David Koch became national news about two years ago when a Jane Mayer exposé in the New Yorker revealed the billionaire brothers were funding "stealth attacks on …
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Remembering Mike Wallace
Mike Wallace at his office in New York, Feb. 14, 2002. Wallace, the CBS reporter who became one of the nation's best-known broadcast journalists as an interrogator of the …
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Gloria Steinem: “Valuing Women’s Work“
The truth was (and still is) that in the United States, as in almost every country, categories of work are less likely to be paid by the expertise they …
Eyes on the Prize: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Lessons for Occupy
When he was assassinated in April, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. had just begun “The Poor People’s Campaign.” This focus on economic injustice, which included plans for a mass …
Who Pays for Political Ads?
Great efforts are underway both locally and nationally to keep secret the identities of people and organizations paying for local political advertisements. But Americans can still do something, even …
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In Lille, the Left Front “Has Broken Its Banks“
Translated by Kristina Wischenkamper and Bill Scoble. After the retaking of the Bastille on 18 March by a mass of 120,000 people, the Left Front struck another blow on Tuesday …
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Conservative Bullying Has Made America Into a Broken, Dysfunctional Family: But There Are Ways to Regain Our Well-Being
A marriage counselor friend once told me that he almost always knows by the end of the very first session whether he's being hired to guide a damaged couple …
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Let’s Stop Big Media’s (B)AD Behavior
Over the years we’ve been reporting on how power is monopolized by the powerful. How corporate lobbyists, for example, far outnumber members of Congress. And how the politicians are …
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Partners in the Freedom Struggle
“The lack of historical consensus regarding John Brown,” asserted longtime labor, racial justice, and international activist Bill Fletcher, “speaks to the ideological confusions we continue to face.” Fletcher — …