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Inequality
Why Cupid Seems to Be Missing More Often
Those arrows aren't hitting their lovelorn targets the way they once did. The reason? New research points to our growing economic divide.
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Black History Month
Black History Month provides an opportunity to reflect on a past we should never forget and the extent to which the legacy of racial inequality is still with us.
Laura Flanders | The 1% Should Be Afraid: The New Norm in the Workplace Is Unstable
Barbara Garson, author most recently of “Down the Up Escalator,” talks about the unsustainable inequality we are spiraling into as capitalists forget they need redistribution to save their own …
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Tipping the Scales of Inequality
Stagnating wages for tipped workers is part of a bigger story of rising inequality in America.
Missing the Marx: On Intellectual Failure and Environmental Catastrophe
Getting radical anti-capitalist ideas wrong and ignoring those ideas completely are timeworn traditions for US intellectuals.
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A Renewed Discourse on Inequality
Corporate personhood and the civil and criminal protections it affords exacerbate inequality and destroy principles.
Obama Out-Orwelled Orwell
Barack Obama may as well have delivered his 5th State of the Union address to and for the Superstate Oceania, the fictional empire mired in perpetual war from George …
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Elizabeth Warren: “It Hurts… It Just Makes Me Madder Than Hell“
"Sen. Warren gave an incredibly powerful and passionate speech, focused on the progressive movement and helping middle and low income Americans who are getting squeezed economically by the powers …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The NSA Is Spying on Angry Birds, and More
According to dozens of previously undisclosed British intelligence documents, government spies may be exploiting popular apps to get their hands on our personal data, and more.
Open Letter to the 85 Richest People on the Planet (cc: Kevin O’Leary)
Kevin O'Leary's recent remarks inspire this open letter to the 85 richest people in the world.