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Amazon.com Drones Raise Red Flags Regarding Privacy Rights
Amazon's fleet of delivery drones may not be a reality for years to come. But if they are inevitable it is not too early to enact privacy protections.
Home, Sweet (Privatized Military) Home
The goals of faster and cheaper military housing may have been achieved through privatization, but problems including unreliable builders and an unwillingness to fix persistent problems including mold has …
Make New York City Ungovernable: Lessons From the Anti-Apartheid Struggle in the Age of Bill de Blasio
If there are any illusions, it's among the liberals who expect dramatic change from a de Blasio administration while they tell the left and workers to be quiet.
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Ikea Isn’t Only Furnishing Your Bedroom, It’s Watching You There
Ikea's French unit has also been conducting surveillance of employees and even customers who complained about items that were not delivered.
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For Economic Stability, Follow the French
The truth is that raising income taxes on rich people and hugely profitable companies actually helps economies and causes companies to hire more and more people, thus lowering unemployment.
The Kansas Regents’ (Unintentional) Honesty About Academic Freedom
The Regents have made clear that they want to crush academic freedom because they do not value it.
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Italy’s “Slow Food” Pioneer: How My Love for Food Ripened Into a Life’s Work
"Our philosophy is good, clean, and fair food; Good because it is healthy and tasty; clean because it is produced with low environmental impact and with animal welfare in …
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Walmart and Disney Refuse to Compensate Injured Bangladeshi Workers
Companies need to face up to the reality that some of their products are produced by men, women and children working in sweatshop conditions.
Indigenous Groups Win Right to Seize Chevron’s Canadian Assets over $18 Billion in Amazon Pollution
A court in Canada has ruled Ecuadorean farmers and fishermen can try to seize the assets of oil giant Chevron based on a 2011 decision in an Ecuadorean court …
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Detroit’s Dan Gilbert: Henry Ford or Henry Potter?
Billionaire Dan Gilbert seems genuinely to want to be part of the solution for Detroit, but his business model helped create and now perpetuates the city's problems.