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To Fight Inequality, Tax Land
In responding to inequality, policy makers should recognize the difference between wealth, which includes land, and productive capital, which doesn't. By Peter R. Orszag
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Four things Ferguson needs to do to even begin to fix its race problems
The Department of Justice report doesn't just call out discrimination in Ferguson. It offers recommendations to fix it.
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The Father of SETI: Q&A with Astronomer Frank Drake
An interview with Frank Drake, who conducted the first search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) experiment in 1960 and came up with a famous equation that estimates the possible number of alien civilizations.
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The Perils of Privatization
When a public function is privatized, the result is a muddled middle ground.
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Christie’s Office Drove Exxon Settlement, Ex-Official Says
For more than a decade, the New Jersey attorney general’s office conducted a hard-fought legal battle to hold Exxon Mobil Corporation responsible for decades of environmental contamination in northern New Jersey. But...
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Colorado Sheriffs Say Marijuana Legalization Should Be Overturned Because It Makes Them Uncomfortable
Their lawsuit argues that the Constitution requires them to bust pot smokers.
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The One Chart You Need to Predict the Future
By Charles Hugh Smith
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New York just showed every other state how to do solar right
"This is as exciting as the Public Service Commission gets."
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The Libertarian Delusion
The free-market fantasy stands discredited by events. The challenge now: redeeming effective and democratic government. By Robert Kuttner
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The Drug Lord With a Social Mission
Matt Bowden (sometimes known as Starboy, an "interdimensional traveler") helped create one of the most viral outbreaks of new drugs in history. He might also have the antidote.
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A Thin Line of Defense Against ‘Honor Killings’
Women’s shelters are one of the most provocative legacies of the Western presence in Afghanistan.
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Dan Pfeiffer’s Exit Interview: How the White House Learned to Be Liberal
In an interview a few days before he resigned, he explained in unusually candid terms the administration’s thinking — and how the White House lost its illusions.
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ICANN, copyright infringement, and “the public interest”
How did ICANN -- the overseer of the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) - put itself in position to be the global law enforcer for copyright infringement claims?
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How Skyrocketing Gun Sales Are Helping To Conserve Butterflies
The Karner blue butterfly is a tiny thing, with colorful wings that extend just an inch across and a life that rarely wanders more than 600 feet from where it began. Its caterpillars can only eat w...
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Thomas Piketty on the Euro Zone: 'We Have Created a Monster'
In an interview with SPIEGEL, celebrated French economist Thomas Piketty speaks about Alexis Tsipras' election victory in Greece, Europe's inability to fix its financial woes and what EU leaders can learn from the United States.
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Maybe Obama's Sanctions on Venezuela are Not Really About His “Deep Concern” over Suppression of Political Rights
The very same people who demand U.S. actions against the democratically elected government in Caracas are the ones who most aggressively mock Venezuelan leaders when they point out that the U.S. is working to undermine their government.
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Do Corporations Really Need More Rights? Why Fast Track for the TPP Is a Bad Idea
We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.
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The Archdruid Report: The Prosthetic Imagination
Two news stories and an op-ed piece in the media in recent days provide a useful introduction to the theme of this week’s post here on The Archdruid Report. The first news story followed the official announcement that the official unemployment rate here in the United States dropped to 5.5% last month. This was immediately hailed by pundits and politicians as proof that the recession we weren’t in is over at last, and the happy days that never went away are finally here again...
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'Disease is no longer a problem' claims deadly bacteria
Following Nigel Farage’s lead, medicine and healthcare have been described as unnecessary by several deadly diseases. By Dean Burnett
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Why does America continue to subsidize housing for the wealthy?
There’s a huge need for affordable housing in the US, but the government keeps pushing flawed home ownership schemes
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