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Economic Update: What’s Wrong With Markets
Updates on Memphis workers locked out; problems of on-line education; capitalism, wealth inequality, and Starbucks; and Gallup on Americans' dissatisfied with their economy, and more.
Citizens United Four Years Later
Briffault: Private wealth of individuals and spending by super PACs, not just for-profit corporations, are spending huge sums in electoral politics.
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“Like Gravity” Fast-Track Trade Sinks Jobs and Wages
With hundreds of groups across the political spectrum - from progressive environmental and consumer groups to the conservative Farm Bureau and Tea Party patriots - lined up against the …
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The Golden Age of Journalism? Your Newspaper, Your Choice
It seemed distinctly like a golden age of print news, if not of journalism.
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Six Drugs Whose Dangerous Risks Were Buried So Big Pharma Could Make Money
New meds are being rushed to the market so industry can start making money even before safety has been determined.
NSA Metadata Collection: Fourth Amendment Violation
Marjorie Cohn of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law discusses two recent decisions on the constitutionality of the National Security Agency's metadata collection program.
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Washington State Bill Proposes Criminalizing Help to NSA, Turning Off Resources to Yakima Facility
Washington has become the first state with a physical NSA location to introduce a Fourth Amendment protection act.
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How a Fruit and Vegetable Auction in Rural Ohio Helps Appalachian Farmers Thrive
Before the auction opened there wasn't a comparable community gathering place anywhere in the county.
You Can’t Opt Out: 10 NSA Myths Debunked
Peter Van Buren takes us through the labyrinth of NSA defenses, point by point, showing just what our favorite Constitution-shredders have to say and why it doesn't hold water.
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Unemployment Falls to 6.7 Percent Due to Workers Leaving the Labor Force
In this month's jobs report, Dean Baker notes the December rate of labor force participation for black men is the lowest on record.