Economy

Are the Young People That Shrinks Label as Disruptive Really Anarchists with a Healthy Resistance to Oppressive Authority?

By Bruce E. Levine / AlterNet

Many young people diagnosed with mental disorders have acted on their beliefs in ways that threaten authorities.

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The Latest Outrageous Waste of Money for the Pentagon's Playthings

By Medea Benjamin, James Marc Leas / AlterNet

Why Elizabeth Warren’s Plan For Student Debt is an Economic Breakthrough

By Ellen Brown / Web of Debt blog

How America's Bully Economy leads to a "Bully Society"

By Jessie Klein / NYU Press

One in Eight People Go Hungry As World's Richest Countries Gather for G8 Meeting

By Bill Nighy / Comment Is Free

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Economy

The Shocking Amount of Wealth and Power Held by 0.001% of the World Population

Andrew Gavin Marshall / Occupy.com's Global Power Project

What's the Real Story on How Much Obamacare is Going to Cost?

Yves Smith / Naked Capitalism

Since When Does Positive Economic Outlook Correlate with Anti-Worker, Anti-Union Policies?

Sean McElwee / AlterNet

Why Libertarians Are Basically Cult Members

Michael Lind / Salon

Obama Nominates America’s Biggest Walmart Cheerleader as His Chief Economic Adviser

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Investing in Education Creates More Than Twice as Many Jobs as Military Spending

Jaisal Noor / The Real News Network

Washington Has Been Stopped in Its Tracks by Republican Tea Party Types, and It's Destroying the Country

Robert Reich / RobertReich.org

Top 10 Reasons to Legalize Marijuana Now

Carmen Yarrusso / Truthout

Is the White House Open for Hedge Fund Business?

Les Leopold / AlterNet

Class of 2013: All Dressed Up and No Place to Work

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

5 Ways the Tech Companies Are Making Monster Profits by Stealing from Our Future

Paul Buchheit / AlterNet

The Trash-Talking Blood Sport of Economics

Richard Eskow / The Smirking Chimp

Supermarkets Amass a Mountain of Data on You, and They Plan to Exploit It

Donna Ferguson / The Guardian

How Google and Silicon Valley Screw Their Non-Elite Workers

Jake Blumgart / AlterNet

The Most Dishonest Words in American Politics: 'Right to Work'

Steven Wishnia / AlterNet

Half Lives: Why the Part-time Economy Is Bad for Everyone

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

How Chains Like Walmart and Whole Foods Free Ride on Taxpayers at the Expense of Responsible Small Businesses

Stacy Mitchell / AlterNet

Rich Countries Are Betting on 3rd World Famine

Jean Ziegler / The New Press

Van Jones: Why Did We Abandoned a Great Progressive Victory?

Jason Mark / Earth Island Journal

Could Senator Warren's Idea for Cheap Student Loans Help Make Rich Kids Richer?

Dean Baker / Beat the Press

Five Ways the US Can Have an Icelandic Revolution

Carl Gibson / Reader Supported News

The 4 Plagues: Getting a Handle on the Coming Apocalypse

Don Hazen / AlterNet

The Case That Immigrant Labor Doesn't Hurt Low-skill U.S. Workers

Michael A. Clemens / Boston Review

Why North Carolina's 'Moral Mondays' Matter for Democracy and the Planet

Philip Radford / Huffington Post

6 Reasons Your Apple Product Has Become Very Uncool

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

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