Analysis
Climate change requires a new abolition movement
October 20, 2014With the elections ahead and the People's Climate March a few weeks in the rear view mirror, I'm reminded of a meeting in the Bronx that I attended and spoke at this summer.
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Female Nobel winners are rare: One was a British communist
October 16, 2014Malala Yousafzai, the 17-year-old Pakistani female education activist, shot but never silenced by the Taliban, became the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
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The dark side of academic moonlighting
October 16, 2014Seventy-three percent of polled Americans believe corruption in government is widespread; but there is a more subtle form of corruption, even less transparent.
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Duvalier: Dead but not gone
October 15, 2014Jean-Claude Duvalier, responsible for the death of thousands and theft of millions, who moved openly in the society of Haitian elites, died Oct. 4 a free man.
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Fertile Ground: Art and community in California
October 15, 2014Art show does not paint over Communist history.
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