Google’s Spymasters Are Now Worried About Your Secrets...

Apr 30, 2013 Posted by

A recent article in The Wall Street Journal by Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, “The Dark Side of the Digital Revolution,” ..

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‘A Kaleidoscopic Sense of Possibility’:...

Apr 30, 2013 Posted by

One of our most intriguing public intellectuals discusses his new book.

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9 Surprising Jobs That Pay a Pittance...

Apr 30, 2013 Posted by

It’s not only fry chefs who are struggling to make ends meet.

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How Economic Criminals View Bangladesh...

Apr 30, 2013 Posted by

Low wages and horrible conditions are just dandy in the neoclassical economic textbook.

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Secret Global Trade Deals Enrich American Elite...

Apr 30, 2013 Posted by

The US-EU free trade pact and the Trans-Pacific Partnership are about securing regulatory gains for major corporate interests.

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Invasion of Afghanistan Fueled a Heroin Resurgence...

Apr 30, 2013 Posted by

Countering opium production has utterly failed in Afghanistan.

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Three New Facts About the Tea Party...

Apr 30, 2013 Posted by

The first large-scale political-science survey of Tea Party activists shows the movement isn’t going anywhere—

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Obama: Gitmo A ‘No Man’s Land...

Apr 30, 2013 Posted by

President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he still wants to close the military prison facility at Guantanamo Bay…

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SNOW JOB

Apr 30, 2013 Posted by

Jeb Hensarling, House Finance Chair, Goes On Ski Vacation With Wall Street

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Sandy Sewage Report:

Apr 30, 2013 Posted by

— Superstorm Sandy released 11 billion gallons of sewage from East Coast treatment plants into bodies of water from Washington, D.C., to Connecticut..

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Big Pharma, Killing Americans, Bankrupting the Country...

Apr 30, 2013 Posted by

Lifesaving medications and commonly prescribed drugs in America today are absurdly expensive here..

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Senators Siding With The NRA

Apr 30, 2013 Posted by

A political price for siding with the NRA.

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Why climate change is not an environmental problem: The video...

Apr 30, 2013 Posted by

[Translate] Grist 29 Apr 2013 6:52 PM   By David Roberts   Ryan L. Cooper, the able young web editor over at Washington Monthly, is the guy who remixed my TEDx talk to such nifty effect. Now he’s finished a new climate video of his own, which he produced and narrated.   Ryan will be the first to tell you that he’s not a video production guru. He’s an amateur, figuring stuff out on the fly. He just feels like he needs to be doing something, so he’s doing something. Would that there were more like him.   Here’s the video: Feel free to critique, but don’t be a...

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My Petition to the President – A Deaf Whale Is a Dead Whale...

Apr 30, 2013 Posted by

In the ocean you find a symphony of sound…

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Rand Paul Proved Himself to Be Spineless...

Apr 28, 2013 Posted by

I thought he was a joke, but after he filibustered over drones, I wondered if I’d been wrong. Nope.

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Neoliberal Self-Parody:

Apr 28, 2013 Posted by

The snarky blogger boy exposes his ignorance and moral confusion.

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We Are in the Middle of a Global Civil War...

Apr 28, 2013 Posted by

From Washington’s Asian “pivot”, to regime change in Iran,…

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When Your Boss Steals Your Wages:...

Apr 28, 2013 Posted by

Wage theft is fast becoming a top trend of the 21st-century labor market.

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Austerity Brings Unemployment to New Highs...

Apr 28, 2013 Posted by

Despite the continuing austerity fail, Republicans and some Dems can’t seem to get the message.

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Cancer Clinics Sequester Cuts

Apr 28, 2013 Posted by

…cancer clinics have been forced to delay chemotherapy treatment for their patients.

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White Right-Wing Extremists Commit Acts of Terror?...

Apr 28, 2013 Posted by

Fox’s ugly religious attacks represent a brazen display of bigotry and bullying.

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9 Burning, Unresolved Questions About the Boston Bombings...

Apr 28, 2013 Posted by

There have been conflicting crime scene accounts from police about basic facts.

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Sequestration Heaps Huge Damage on Many Millions...

Apr 28, 2013 Posted by

A flight delay is inconvenient, not being able to receive your cancer treatment is a matter of life and death.

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Ben Afflect, eating like a poor person?...

Apr 26, 2013 Posted by

[Translate]     Ben Affleck is going to eat like a poor person [Updated] By Sarah Miller   Gene Bromberg “So hungry. Can’t wait to have a nice big meal tomorrow.” Editor’s Note: This story relied on a report in Us Weekly, which said Affleck would be doing his eat-like-a-poor-person thing for just one day. That’s wrong. In fact, it’s clear from Affleck’s  Twitter feed (and the campaign it points to) that Affleck intends to do this for five days and he’s doing it to get other people to join him, which is a worthy goal. Grist apologizes for the error. We never should have doubted you, Ben! Call us! I want to be clear about something. I love Ben Affleck. I love him how you only love someone to whom you have spent most of your...

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Cities move toward dumping stocks in fossil-fuel companies...

Apr 26, 2013 Posted by

[Translate]     San Francisco and 10 other cities move toward dumping stocks in fossil-fuel companies By John Upton   Shutterstock / Nickolay Stanev San Francisco had another bright idea. Oil companies might be awfully profitable right now, but political leaders in San Francisco and 10 other U.S. cities want to dump their investments in them anyway. San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted this week to urge the city’s investment fund managers to sell off more than $583 million worth of shares in Chevron, ExxonMobil, and some 200 other fossil-fuel companies. This makes San Francisco the biggest city to join the divestment campaign being pushed by 350.org, which began with a focus on colleges and universities. Seattle was the first city to join the campaign; its mayor got on board late last year. Divestment might...

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Surviving Climate Change

Apr 26, 2013 Posted by

[Translate]   Locally owned businesses can help communities thrive — and survive climate change By Stacy Mitchell myoldpostcards Small businesses offer big benefits. Cities where small, locally owned businesses account for a relatively large share of the economy have stronger social networks, more engaged citizens, and better success solving problems, according to several recently published studies. And in the face of climate change, those are just the sort of traits that communities most need if they are to survive massive storms, adapt to changing conditions, find new ways of living more lightly on the planet, and, most important, nurture a vigorous citizenship that can drive major changes in policy. That there’s a connection between the ownership structure of our economy and the vitality of our democracy may sound a bit odd to modern ears....

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Do-Nothing Congress Gives Inertia a Bad Name...

Apr 26, 2013 Posted by

If you want to see why the public approval rating of Congress is down in the sub-arctic range —

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Drawing Inspiration from Activists Past and Present...

Apr 26, 2013 Posted by

From media reform to money in politics, …

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Franken-Apples Coming to a Store Near You...

Apr 26, 2013 Posted by

Biotech’s Latest Creation:

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