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UN Climate Panel Casts Dire Picture In New Report
Climate change has already cut into the global food supply and is fueling wars and natural disasters, and governments are unprepared to protect populations.
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Which Is More Terrifying: Google or Facebook?
Relentlessly, the two companies are pushing toward a dystopian future in which privacy is null and we wear social networks on our faces.
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$25 Million Bank of America Settlement Amounts to Wrist-Slap
Two settlements between Bank of America and state and federal regulators over actions during the financial crisis challenge conventional assumptions about Republicans, Democrats and Wall Street.
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First Things First 2014: A Tech Manifesto For Meaningful Work
In this manifesto, Cole Peters urges designers, developers, technologists and communicators to refocus priorities in favor of more lasting, democratic forms of communication.
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Cesar Chavez Comes to Life In Film About California's Heroic Labor Leader
Mexican actor-turned-director Diego Luna has made the heroic labor and civil rights leader Cesar Chavez the subject of a new film.
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Police Killing Inflames San Francisco Community, Revealing Further Divides
"This is a travesty. There is no justification whatsoever for him to be massacred with 14 bullet holes."
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Introducing Loomio: Occupy-Inspired App For Consensus Decision Making
Modeled on the Occupy General Assembly, the consensus-based digital platform is already being used by activists in Ukraine.
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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.
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Edward Snowden Calls Obama Plan for NSA Reform A “Turning Point”
Praising the president’s proposal to end NSA bulk data collection, Snowden says it “marks the beginning of a new effort to reclaim our rights from the NSA."
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Why Richmond’s Plan to Rescue Homeowners Could Reshape the Mortgage Lending Industry
Once this city uses eminent domain to seize and refinance underwater homes belonging to Wall Street banks, towns nationwide will hurry to replicate the success.
