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Grad School Is a Debt Machine
America's student debt burden has been on the rise for years, along with America's class of incredibly well-educated retail workers. A new report reveals who's driving the train to debt hell: grad ...
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RuppRogers Fake Dragnet Fix Would End (?) Bulk Firearm Record Collection, But
I'm just beginning to go through the House Intelligence Fake Dragnet Fix bill - what I will henceforth call the RuppRogers Fake Dragnet Fix. It does have some improvements - the kind of bones you ...
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The sharing economy is thriving in Berlin's "borrowing shops"
Nikolai Wolfert wasn't the only one who was bummed after the Berlin Green Party's loss in 2011, but he channeled his disappointment in a pretty unique way: opening a lending library for everything ...
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Overwhelming Evidence that Half of America is In or Near Poverty
The Charles Koch Foundation recently released a commercial that ranked a near-poverty-level $34,000 family among the Top 1% of poor people in the world. Bud Konheim, CEO and co-founder of fashion ...
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Waves of Nationwide Actions Planned at Key Historic Moment
"Every wave on the ocean that has ever risen up and refused to lay back down has been dashed on the shore, but it is the very purpose of a wave to rise up, because once it rises up above the horizon
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4 Business Opportunities That Are Driving Innovation In Social Enterprise
Social enterprise can sometimes go big on promises and deliver little in results. However, the business models outlined below are attracting big dollars and a lot of attention. Most importantly ...
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Icelanders can now each claim $400 worth of Auroracoin, the country's new
Policy & Law At midnight this morning in Iceland, digital currency fell from the sky. The developer behind Auroracoin, a digital currency designed exclusively for Iceland, has made $125 million ...
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Second Bill of Rights
The Second Bill of Rights was a list of rights proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt during his State of the Union Address on January 11, 1944. In his address Roosevelt suggested that the nation had ...
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Why I Decided to Blow the Whistle on the NSA
NSA whistleblower Russ Tice describes his evolution from being a staunch believer in the mission of the NSA to being the first insider to expose how the surveillance state disregarded Americans' ...
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Venice's Case for Independence
"Ballot" is not originally an English word: It comes from the Venetian word , or "little ball." For centuries, councils elected the Doge of Venice, who ruled the city-state, with small silver and ...
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Inside the NSA's Secret Efforts to Hunt and Hack System Administrators - The
News Inside the NSA's Secret Efforts to Hunt and Hack System Administrators Across the world, people who work as system administrators keep computer networks in order - and this has turned them into
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Rethinking the 40-Hour Work Week - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com
Is the 9-to-5 approach to "full time" still ideal for employers and workers, or is it just a relic?
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Climate change and the next Great Famine | TIME
A new study finds that as the planet warms, yields for important staple crops like wheat could decline sharply. It's St. Patrick's Day, which means the 100 million or so people of Irish descent ...
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Terrifying Precedent: Woman to Be Tried for Murder for Giving Birth to Stillborn
Rennie Gibbs's daughter, Samiya, was a month premature when she simultaneously entered the world and left it, never taking a breath. To experts who later examined the medical record, the stillborn ...
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Pew Research: Young Liberals To Dominate Future Of U.S. Politics
While the 2014 elections may be favoring the Republican party, a new Pew Research study has some encouraging data for progressives and liberals, reflecting a growing electorate that is quickly ...
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MUST SEE: Krystal Ball brutally eviscerates the GOP & trashes corporate Dems in
If you watch only one thing today, watch this. Short version: The GOP is a staggering corpse that is fading into irrelevance and the real future is in the fight between pro-corporate Democrats and ...
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Rare Diamond Reveals Earth's Interior is All Wet
A battered diamond that survived a trip from "hell" confirms a long-held theory: Earth's mantle holds an ocean's worth of water. "It's actually the confirmation that there is a very, very large ...
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The NSA Is Using Facebook to Hack Into Your Computer
This just in from the Edward Snowden vault of government secrets: The National Security Agency is breaking into "potentially millions of computers worldwide" and infecting them with malware ...
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Chevron Says Hell Will Freeze Over Before It Pays For Pollution
My latest article for VICE: When 30,000 Ecuadorian villagers sued Chevron in 1993 for devastating the Amazon with 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater, the US-based oil giant's reply was simple: ...
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CIA spied on Senate committee writing damning torture report and Obama knew
The CIA's Inspector General has asked the Justice Department to consider criminally charging CIA agents who spied on a senate committee that was engaged in writing a report that was highly critical
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11 Ways To Feed The World Without Destroying The Planet
"How do we achieve food security in a world of growing scarcity?" That's the question posed in a new report, which explores how technology can help feed 9 billion people, without destroying the ...
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Millennial generation is cause for liberal optimism
A new study by the Pew Research Center provides reason for political optimism: Members of the so-called millennial generation, born after 1980, are more liberal than the preceding generations on a ...
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From Cryptocurrencies to Cryptocontracts
"The twin technologies of cryptocurrencies and cryptocontracts are going to turn contract law into a programming language". Excerpted from @ThoughtInfected: "Essentially what we are talking about i...
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Comcast's deal with Netflix makes network neutrality obsolete
For the past two decades, the Internet has operated as an unregulated, competitive free market. Given the tendency of networked industries to lapse into monopoly-think of AT&T's 70-year hold over ...
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50 States, 50 Plans
Transition to 100% wind, water, and solar for all purposes. The Solutions Project is a group of top scientists, visionary business leaders and cultural influencers with a mission of accelerating the