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Review: "The Unwinding" by George Packer
The New America of George Packer's ambitious history, "The Unwinding," is a morally compromised patchwork of failed institutions, Ponzi schemes, bankruptcies, foreclosures, ignorance and fear. But it is also a country where idealism still exists, and...
Tags: Media Industry, Bruce Springsteen, Peter Thiel, Unrest, Conflicts and War, International Military Interventions
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Freshman senator with senior pluck takes on the financial industry
WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the newest member of the Senate Banking Committee, waited patiently for her first chance to question top financial regulators at a recent hearing on Capitol Hill. When her turn finally came after 90 minutes,...
Tags: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Litigation and Regulation, Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Elections
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Feminists oppose Berlin's Barbie Dreamhouse
The opening this month of the first life-sized Barbie Dreamhouse in Europe may be the fantasy of many a little girl, but Berlin feminists are mobilising against what they call a sexist icon. With her ironed-straight blond tresses, doe-like baby blue...Tags: Media Industry, Toy Industry, Toys, Barbie (fictional character), Services and Shopping
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May Day in New York: Protesting just about everything
NEW YORK -- There are many things to protest against in the world, and people rallying against a fair number of them took to one of New York’s iconic squares on May Day as part of nationwide rallies in celebration of the traditional workers holiday....
Tags: Chelsea (Manhattan, New York), Career and Workplace, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights, Manhattan (New York City)
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May Day demonstrators rally across U.S.
May Day protesters marched down streets across the country Wednesday, calling on lawmakers to provide a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million immigrants who have entered the country illegally or overstayed their visas. The crowds numbered...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Employees, Activism, Immigration, Jamie Dimon
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants student loans to get Fed discount rate
WASHINGTON -- Students taking out government loans to help pay for college should pay the same rock-bottom interest rate that the Federal Reserve charges big banks, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) proposed Wednesday. With the interest rate on federal...
Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Finance, Elizabeth Warren, Loans, Federal Reserve
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David Graeber looks at the Occupy movement, from the inside
"It's a difficult business," writes David Graeber, "creating a new, alternative civilization." Just open a window or turn on the TV — the same old civilization is rotting all around us. Budget cuts, police shootings, endless and ever-broadening...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Finance, Political Systems, Book, Politics
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NYC agrees to pay more than $230,000 after destroying Occupy books
The City of New York has agreed to pay more than $230,000 to settle a lawsuit over destroying thousands of protesters' books after the city's November 2011 raid to break up the Occupy Wall Street encampment. "It was more than just money," Norman Siegel,...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Libraries, Justice System, Michael Bloomberg, New York City
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Retail, fast-food workers rally for higher pay in Chicago
Chicago Tribune reportersStanding with other protesters on Chicago's storied State Street, Charde Nabors, 21, said she's fighting for better pay and more opportunities for workers like her. Nabors said she earns $9 an hour at Sears and would like to work full time, rather...Tags: Career and Workplace, Employment Opportunities, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Walmart, Dunkin' Donuts
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'Right wing' doesn't equal 'terrorist'
"If history were to repeat itself," warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1944 State of the Union address, "and we were to return to the so-called normalcy of the 1920s, then it is certain that even though we shall have conquered our enemies on...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Elections, Entertainment, Lyndon B. Johnson, NPR
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