Truthout
Wealth Gap
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The Super Rich Reinvent US Capitalism
Democrats and Republicans alike insist that the U.S. is broke, all the while conveniently ignoring the mountains of tax-free wealth piling up in the pockets of the super rich.
Zombies, “Scarcity,” and Understanding Poverty
A world defined by zombies is a world that has redefined the nature of human free will and choice.
Out of the Mouths of Babes
My seven-year-old daughter’s new favorite song is, no joke, “Banks of Marble,” sung by Pete Seeger.
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John Carpenter’s Prophetic Visions of the American Police State
Those seeking a good scare tend to overlook the deeper, overarching themes that speak to the filmmakeru2019s concerns about the unraveling of our society, particularly our government.
Billionaires: Decline of the West, Rise of the Rest
Gone are the days when the U.S. accounted for over 40 percent of the world's billionaires, with Western Europe and Japan making up most of the rest.
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Urban Cleansing by Class: The Perfect Crime
This book charts the process of how certain populations become skewed as
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19 Young Activists Changing America
These activists know that the radical ideas of one generation are often the common-sense ideas of the next: They are practical idealists.
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The Triumph of the Right
The Right is still winning the big one: How the nation understands our biggest domestic problem.
Aren’t All Children Equally Deserving?
Pulling back from created other worlds, we are faced continually with moral dilemmasu2014often ones also involving children.
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Injustice
The upper class rich white folks think poverty comes from people being u201ctoo lazy.u201d In all reality, African Americans and Latinos do not get the chances they deserve.