Big business has found a number of ways to profit from the economic suffering on ‘Main Street.’ By **Joshua Holland** From Alternet.Org. The ruins of the American economy represent a…
…start a blog. At the time, blogs were not nearly as ubiquitous as they are today. Moulitsas, though, had been blogging since the mid-Nineties when, as a law student at…
…the consequences? According to Professor Oliver Phillips, co-founder of the RAINFOR network (Amazon Forest Inventory Network), “the global climate models are driven by emissions ‘scenarios’ approved by the IPCC. These…
…their phones. Her website cultivates an air of mystery. It’s a single monochrome page consisting solely of the words “Aragi,” “Nicole Aragi,” and “queries@aragi.net.” You’d get more information from your…
…children. The U.S. is not among them. The net worth of black and Latino college graduates is similar to the net worth of white high school graduates. In 1949, mortgages…
…he started NewAssignment.Net, his experimental site for pro-am, open source reporting projects. He is the co-publisher with Arianna Huffington of OfftheBus, a collaboration between NewAssignment.Net and the Huffington Post in…
…built upon in the ’60s, toward actually creating a social safety net and improving the security of all Americans. “I get upset when I hear women’s groups talking about women’s…
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…Burney McCarthy let their long hair hang, Ken Maeng kept his hair plastered to the side with about twenty cans of Aqua Net. Ken Maeng’s hair had grown so brittle…
…It was. I mean, I got the Internet. [Laughs.] I starting reading mcsweeneys.net in the very early days of that, and then I read A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius…
…our energy future and for the future of great-power politics on planet Earth. Washington is already watching—with anxiety. Rarely has a simple press interview said more about the global power…
…we have to turn to independent investigators, like Kim Bobo, author of Wage Theft in America, who estimates that wage theft nets employers at least $100 billion a year and…
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…spend. But to the extent most Americans have any assets at all their net worth is mostly in their homes, and those homes are still worth less than they were…
Image from Flickr via ChristinaElyse F or me, being a Southern writer has meant being cast in a net, caught in a web, woven into a network of relationships. It…
…cues from the tilting of the planet, the long hours of sunlight, or the sudden warm spike. Its branches extend, empty and bare. This pine must be at least a…
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…number of safety-net programs are subjected to drug-testing. Lawmakers in 23 states are considering testing people who apply for such programs as job training, food stamps, public housing, welfare, and…
…jobs in the U.S., most people assumed he was talking about net exports—that is, exports minus imports. A doubling of net exports would help fill the demand gap caused by…
…from bark beetles outbreak has transformed from being a small net carbon sink to being a large net carbon source. We can probably say the same for all the other…
…trial lawyers be members of the nefarious elite, while their spouses in corporate law firms were not? A Greased Chute, Not a Safety Net “Liberal elite” was always a political…
…Yes, sometimes, doctor, but life is long, you know, at a certain age you think back to people who aren’t here anymore, you look back, at the net that has…
…Having never been to your studio before and just doing internet research, I thought there would be more of a net emphasis to your work. I didn’t realize it was…