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Brooklyn Art Students Join National Surge of College Activists
(Image: Tina Scott) “I get asked a lot, 'Why are so many activists also artists?'” said Alice Zinnes, a light, color, and design professor at New York's Pratt Institute. …
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West Coast “Green” Jobs Data Shows Promise
A group of West Coast leaders has made its first attempt to quantify how many jobs have been spurred by the clean economy, a sector that includes engineers who …
JOBS Act: The Dumbest “Bipartisan” Move Since Repealing Glass-Steagall
Here we go again. Once again the ‘bipartisan’ consensus in Washington, fueled by an intoxicating brew of conventional wisdom laced with campaign cash, has repealed some of those 'cumbersome …
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Gay Marriage Effort Attracts a Novel Group of Donors
Rob Reiner. (Photo: Andy and Mike / Flickr)Los Angeles - On a warm Friday afternoon three years ago, Rob Reiner, the director, arrived for lunch at the Beverly Hills …
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Staff Sergeant Robert Bales Formally Charged in Afghanistan Massacre
Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, left, at Fort Irwin and the National Training Center in Califorinia, August 23, 2011, in a handout photo. (Photo: Spc. Ryan Hallock, Defense Video …
Four Hundred Chernobyls: Solar Flares, Electromagnetic Pulses and Nuclear Armageddon
An abandoned middle school, part of the contaminated area surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in Pripyat, Ukraine, March 17, 2011. The ghost town which once had a population …
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Labor’s David vs. GOP Goliath
Organized labor is doing exactly what it must do to combat the onslaught against unions being waged by Republican politicians nationwide, throwing lots of money and lots of ground …
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“I Miss My Gynocologist“
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Documents Detail Widespread Confusion on DHS Involvement in Surveillance, Crackdown on Occupy
What kind of Occupy activity is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) allowed to place surveillance on? Was the agency part of the November 2011 crackdown on Occupy movement? …
Up, Up and Away: How Money Power Works Down Under
One of my first jobs as a junior reporter was to meet flights bringing famous people to Australia. Growing up in a country far from everywhere (except, as my …