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The U.S. Is Not A Meritocracy
If you say workers should accept that their pay is what they’re “worth” rather than collectively bargaining for higher wages, you are saying that all Americans are neatly organized from top-to-bottom based on their hard work and merit. You’d be wrong.
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How Housing’s New Players Spiraled Into Banks’ Old Mistakes
Some private equity firms that came in as the cleanup crew for the housing crisis are now repeating errors that banks committed.
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Slumming It
The gospel of wealth comes for Dharavi. By Daniel Brook.
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How human sacrifice helped to enforce social inequality
Using a language-based family tree and statistical methods developed by evolutionary biologists, we were able to model how human sacrifice and social inequality evolved in the prehistory of Austronesia. By Joseph Watts.
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There’s Absolutely No Reason Why an EpiPen Should Cost $300
Lack of competition and aggressive marketing have led to an exorbitant cost for the life-saving device.
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How the Super-Rich Will Destroy Themselves
The super-rich may be hastening their own demise, while taking the rest of us with them.
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Returning to an Ohio town on the decline
America is in the middle of its most volatile presidential election season in half a century, and the Midwestern state of Ohio is set to be a key decider in the race. Michael Goldfarb returns to the state he first reported on two decades ago to see how much has changed.
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Poor at 20, Poor for Life
A new study indicates that from the 1980s to the 2000s, it became less likely that a worker could move up the income ladder.
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The Philosopher of Feelings
Martha Nussbaum’s far-reaching ideas illuminate the often ignored elements of human life—aging, inequality, and emotion. By Rachel Aviv.
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‘Meritocracy’ Is Just Another Way to Put You Down
Society is in trouble when we start throwing around terms like “the best and the brightest.” By Justin Fox.
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Uprising in the Rust Belt
They used to be Democrats. Now they really could hand Donald Trump the White House. By Keith O’Brien. (June 24, 2016)
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On his third birthday, here's one gift Prince George really does need
It’s Prince George’s third birthday today. As his loyal subjects, it’s only right that we celebrate. Only this morning, as I cracked open the Bollinger on my private flight back from the holiday home in Tuscany, I thought to myself, ‘I should probably send him a gift’. By Holly Baxter.
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Why Wellness Is the New Way to Look, Feel, and Act Rich
Green juice, fancy leggings, acupuncture, and cleanses are all part of the new luxury lifestyle. By Marisa Meltzer.
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Silicon Is Just Sand
Money, murder, and sadomasochism: A journey into the hidden world of Silicon Beach and the Los Angeles tech world. By Stephen Elliott.
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The Ghost of King Leopold II Still Haunts Us
Belgium Colonization and the Ignition of the HIV Global Pandemic. “HIV-1 was ignited in Leopoldville, but the resulting HIV global pandemic is also the apparition of a grotesque and horrific legacy—the European infection of mass historical trauma and the devastation of Congolese health wrought by King Leopold II, the Force Publique, and Belgian colonization.” By Dr. Lawrence Brown. (Apr. 20, 2015)
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Mike Pence Walks 10 Nuns Out of the Voting Booth
“I know that Mike Pence says he’s a Christian, but he also stopped 10 nuns from voting - and that’s very important. Mike Pence would not be governor of Indiana if he hadn’t figured out a way to knock out black voters, nun voters, student voters, and poor voters.” By Dennis J Bernstein and Greg Palast.
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Brazil’s Billionaire Problem
Just over two years ago, in April 2014, Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century was published in English and took the top spot on the New York Times bestseller list. Piketty’s book struck a nerve, helping to disseminate several ideas—among them that capitalism doesn’t automatically generate a reasonable or equitable distribution of income and that paying attention to the wealthiest 1% is necessary to understanding politics. Piketty focused on the concentration of wealth in 19th and 20th century France, the U.K...
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The Pernicious Realities of ‘Artwashing’
In expensive London, artists are caught in the middle of developers’ attempts to push out lower-income residents and rebrand neglected properties. By Feargus O'Sullivan. (June 24, 2014)
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There is no shame worse than poor teeth in a rich world
If you have a mouthful of teeth shaped by a childhood in poverty, don’t go knocking on the door of American privilege. By Sarah Smarsh.
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Her Students Got Pepper Sprayed—and She Gets a $424,360 Golden Parachute
UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi, who wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to minimize her response to student protests, has been forced to resign. But the public will keep paying her lavishly. By Conor Friedersdorf.
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