Most talk of income inequality focuses on the problems of the very poor or the broader socioeconomic implications of rising inequality. What is less well-known…
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To justify U.S. “regime changes,” the U.S. government has routinely spread rumors and made other dubious claims which – even when later doubted or debunked…
One does not have to be a Marxist to say that property in our times, i.e., in a system of modern capitalism, is a curse…
When, about 30 years ago, corporate interests began their highly organized, well-funded effort to privatize public education, you wouldn’t have read or heard about it.…
The more social ties people have at an early age, the better their health is at the beginnings and ends of their lives, a new…
On Friday, the Department of Homeland Security released updated information regarding the national identification card known as the REAL ID. Beginning January 22, 2018, all airline…
Republican legislators and candidates responding to President Obama’s recent executive measures on gun control have openly and willfully distorted the president’s stated policies and ambitions.…
As 2015 drew to a close, many in the global energy industry were praying that the price of oil would bounce back from the abyss,…
Forked Tongue: Obama’s ‘The State of the Union is Great’ Address Borrowing the oratorical framework of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union…
Back in August I wrote a piece here in Salon about Trump’s authoritarian tendencies and how it was a mistake for liberals to laugh too much about…
I watched a documentary about North Korea which explained how the government there assigns a score to each citizen, based on how large a threat…
GMO promoters enthuse about how GM crops will be able to help the poor and hungry, far in the future, writes Claire Robinson. But they…