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Wealth Inequality
A Nostalgic America, Haunted By Ghosts
The America that believed in technology as a solution to all things has become almost a century later a landscape where ghosts comfortably dwell.
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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.
Aren’t All Children Equally Deserving?
Pulling back from created other worlds, we are faced continually with moral dilemmasu2014often ones also involving children.
Do We Need Another Rolls-Royce Showroom?
A tiny tax on global personal wealth over $1 million could ensure that no child anywhere on the planet has to live in extreme poverty.
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Should Rich Kids Get Most of the Scholarships?
The schools bump up their average GPA, get more money to give to rich students, and the poor are left out of the loop.
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What GOP-Tea Party Risks With Block of New New Deal
The Republican-Tea Party alliance operates a weapon of mass deflection, protecting capitalism from criticism. Sadly, the Democrats neither expose nor attack the Republican project, says Wolff.
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Subsidizing Economic Inequality
The push to privatize the public sector through contracting out is expanding our economic divide.