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Interview: The Women Who Rewrote Cambodian Law – and the Men Who Censored Them
Anne Elizabeth Moore shares her insights into working with, and writing about, a new generation of courageous Cambodian women as well as the white men who seek to protect …

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Blood Ties, Nepotism and Democracy
From the Murdochs to the monarchy, blood ties remain important in our supposedly meritocratic society. Is this the natural order of things - essential for a cohesive culture? Or …

OECD: Inequality Rising Faster than Ever
The Great Recession has widened the gap between the developed worldu2019s affluent and everyone else.

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Why Inequality Is a Problem and Growth a Red Herring
Salvatore Babones: To the inequality and growth debate, I say - who cares!

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Henry A. Giroux | Marching in Chicago: Resisting Rahm Emanuel’s Neoliberal Savagery
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's attempt to close 54 public schools is one more example of a neoliberal system at work.

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Education Reform in the New Jim Crow Era
What do the war on drugs and market-oriented education reform have in common?

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Chris Hedges: Murder Is Our National Sport
Death Row inmate William Van Poyck fights for his life by blogging his experience as he waits for lethal injection.

How the Prison-Industrial Complex Destroys Lives
Truthout interviews Marc Mauer, author of

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Real Faces of the Minimum Wage
Most minimum-wage workers are adults, the majority of them are women, and many are parents who are trying to raise their children on poverty wages.

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The Dis-Uniting of America
Robert Reich: Anyone who wants to understand the dis-uniting of America needs to see how dramatically we're segregating geographically by income and wealth.