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The Destruction of Workers’ Compensation
Over the past 25 years, the giant meatpacking company Tyson Foods has taken a lead in pushing for changes in workers’ comp in state after state—often to the detriment of workers. By Michael Grabell. (Dec. 15)
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Everyone Loves Marineland
“Marineland denies the allegations made in this podcast...” By Jesse Brown.
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Boardwalk Vampire
Governed for decades by racketeers and corrupt politicians, Atlantic City blew its chances at revival. By Steven Malanga. (Autumn)
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Natural Resources Were Supposed to Make Afghanistan Rich. Here’s What’s Happening to Them
Traveling to Logar Province reveals unmanageable violence and co-optation by foreign companies. By Antony Loewenstein. (Dec. 14)
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Hospitality and Gambling Interests Delay Closing of Billion-Dollar [US] Tax Loophole
Lobbyists recently swooped in to add 54 words to a tax and spending bill of more than 2,000 pages that temporarily preserved a loophole sought by the hotel, restaurant and gambling industries, and billionaire Wall Street investors. By Eric Lipton and Liz Moyer.
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Return of the Lula
With Brazil mired in scandal, is the leftist former president about to ditch his hand-picked successor and take the reins once more? By Juliana Barbassa.
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Of Rotten Apples and Rotten Systems
It’s easy to go after bad guys, much harder to go after bad systems. Hedge fund managers, for example, make big gains from trading on insider information. That robs small investors who aren’t privy to the information.
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Moldova’s Drama on the Dniester
Europe’s poorest country is torn between Brussels and Moscow. By Alexander Clapp.
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How Obama Let Big Oil Drill in the Pristine Alaska Wilderness
The land was supposed to be protected. Until one company brought in the ultimate inside player. By Alec MacGillis.
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‘The Big Short,’ Housing Bubbles and Retold Lies
**Submitter's Note: browse this site in Privacy/Incognito mode.** “The Big Short” is based on the Michael Lewis book of the same name, one of the few real best-sellers to emerge from the financial crisis. I saw an early screening, and I think it does a terrific job of making Wall Street skulduggery entertaining, of exploiting the inherent black humor of how it went down.
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In Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago Surveillance State, Controlling the Data Is Key
The police killing of Laquan McDonald was extensively recorded. But politics is about who controls the digital traces—and their exposure or erasure. By Bernard E. Harcourt.
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Why do many Americans mistrust the Federal Reserve?
Many Americans do not trust their central bank, US Federal Reserve, but their scepticism isn’t new - it dates back to the early years of the republic.
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Koch Campaign Strains Criminal Justice Coalition
Known as “mens rea” in legal parlance, the provision would make it harder for prosecutors to prove corporate wrongdoing. Conservatives say the provision could prevent “morally blameless individuals and entities” from being burdened with criminal convictions for life. But critics on the left say it just raises the bar for prosecuting white-collar crimes—like the ones such corporate titans as the Kochs might be accused of.
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Censor or die: The death of Mexican news in the age of drug cartels
Journalists in northern Mexico face institutionalized censorship imposed by vast organized crime networks. By Dana Priest.
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China anti-counterfeiting agents make many of the fakes themselves
Multinational corporations doing business in China face a losing battle when it comes to keeping copies of their products off the market, with anti-counterfeiting investigators either collaborating with producers of the fake goods, or copying the goods themselves, according to a report. The Associated Press said it had found that anti-counterfeiting investigators were widely involved in copying products of their own western customers so they could claim bounties for “seizing” them.
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Management theory was hijacked in the 80s. We're still suffering the fallout
Simon Caulkin: Good governance went out of the window when the Chicago school's reductive view of human nature took hold
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I Was A Teenage Randroid
I wasn’t a stupid kid, but I think the irony escaped me. I lived in a basement; "The Fountainhead" is about skyscrapers. I was poor; "The Fountainhead" glorified wealth. I was being fed, in part, through a government-funded program; "The Fountainhead" called such programs — and, in fact, altruism in any form — the work of collectivist parasites who siphoned off the energy of the persecuted, downtrodden producers of the world. In other words, it was the exact inversion of socialism.
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How Japan is Fueling the Slaughter of Elephants
Five takeaways from a new report slamming Japan’s ability to keep illegal ivory out of its legal market. By Rachael Bale.
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The Inside Story of Shell’s Arctic Assault
A months-long investigation shows how the energy giant pressured the Interior Department during the company's gung-ho Arctic push—and got most of what it wanted (except oil). By Barry Yeoman.
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Look Who's Buying American Democracy
According to an investigation by the New York Times, half of all the money contributed so far to Democratic and Republican presidential candidates—$176 million—has come from just 158 families, along with the companies they own or control. Who are these people? They’re almost entirely white, rich, older and male—even though America is becoming increasingly black and brown, young, female, and with declining household incomes.
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