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Occupy Wall Street Rallies Monitored by Dow Chemical
Occupy Town Square in Tompkins Square Park, East Village, New York. February 26, 2012. (Photo: David Shankbone) Last night, Wikileaks revealed a massive trove of e-mails from …
Archaeologist, Black Feminist Unearths Contributions of African Diaspora, Everyday People
Whitney Battle-Baptiste. (Photo: whitneybattlebaptiste.wordpress.com) Every February is Black History Month, which presents many opportunities to explore and contextualize the broader, nuanced and less familiar aspects of what …
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Over Last Ten Years, General Electric’s Effective Tax Rate Was 2.3 Percent
The Obama administration unveiled its corporate tax reform plan last week, which would lower the top rate from 35 percent to 28 percent, billing it as an effort to …
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A Fresh Blot on Murdoch’s Sun
London - A day after presiding over the publication of his new, damn-the-critics Sun on Sunday tabloid, Rupert Murdoch was confronted with fresh allegations from a top police investigator …
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Japan Weighed Evacuating Tokyo in Nuclear Crisis
Workers in the village of Iitate, about 20 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors, during an experimental decontamination effort, in Japan, January 15, 2012. (Photo: Ko Sasaki / …
New State Bank Bills Address Credit and Housing Crises
The long-awaited settlement between 49 state Attorneys General and the big five robo-signing banks is proving to be a major disappointment before it has even been signed, sealed and …
Stealing State Parks
RV parked at Mitchell Caverns, a California state park closed in 2011 that has suffered from vandalism since being shut down. (Photo: Mollivan Jon) Top politicos in …
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Corporate Margins and Profits are Increasing, But Workers’ Wages Aren’t
As we’ve been noting, corporate profits have made it back to their pre-recession heights (even if corporate tax revenue hasn’t followed suit). In fact, in 2011, corporate profits hit …
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Does College Make Us Less Equipped to Change the World?
In this great meritocracy of ours, those of us who’ve made it through college are encouraged to feel like we’re something special. And it’s no doubt true that a …
The Republican Brain: Why Even Educated Conservatives Deny Science – and Reality
I can still remember when I first realized how naïve I was in thinking—hoping—that laying out the “facts” would suffice to change politicized minds, and especially Republican ones. It …