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May Day: From the Haymarket Massacre to the Occupy Movement
Many people might be surprised to learn that the May Day celebrations that occurred around the world this week were born more than a century ago out of a …

Occupied Oakland’s May Daze
Protesters face officers during an Occupy movement march outside City Hall in Oakland, California, on May 1, 2012. (Photo: Jim Wilson / The New York Times) Occupy Oakland talks …

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Draw Straws

Goldman Sachs Political Contributions Tainted by Money From Swindled Veterans and Other Misdeeds
Goldman Sachs Building. (Photo: Bill Benzon / Flickr)For-profit colleges have been aggressively targeting and recruiting veterans as they chase post-9/11 GI benefits as a lucrative source of revenue not …

Algorithmic Capitalism and Educational Futures: Informationalism and the Googlization of Knowledge
Algorithmic Trading and Cloud Capitalism The report of the staffs of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission to the Joint Advisory Committee on Emerging Regulatory …

Toni Morrison: On Love and Writing
Toni Morrison seems always to be in two worlds. There is the visible world, bustling around her, and there is the world of her novels, whose characters tell us …

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Koch-Funded Mackinac Center Brings Wisconsin Act 10 Provisions to ALEC
With the recent publication of additional American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) documents, new questions are being raised about the source of certain provisions in Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's controversial …

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Quebec Students Ignite the Popular Imagination
Vibrant nightly protests over the past week in downtown Montréal, in solidarity with the Quebec student strike, are sparking global attention. As the Quebec-wide strike continues - it has …
