The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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The Effects of Sears Crash Show Capitalism is Morally Bankrupt
No coherent theory of justice could endure such successive material indignities as the ones poor people in America endure every single day.
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Act Out! [134] - Whites Are Dying But it’s Not Genocide, A Closed Internet & Indigenous Futures
This week on Act Out!, the cries of white genocide are growing. What's the psychology behind white death, white suffering and what can we do to prevent legitimate rage from turning into illegitimate white supremacy?
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The Death of Dignity In Working Class America
Listen, "it's not personal, it's business." You are a commodity. You assist in the production of a product that is not solely your own. So here are your options: Take less, surf the changes or step aside.
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Five Hypocrisies Shine A Light On American "Exceptionalism"
Super-patriots are more than willing to overlook their own faults as they place themselves above other people – the only question may be which of their self-serving hypocrisies is most outrageous and destructive.
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U.K. Worker Anger Is Rising Over Unfair Living Wage
The Living Wage remains an informal benchmark, and employers get to decide whether or not to pay it.
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U.S. Economy Losing "Up to a $1 Billion a Week" After Jobless Benefits Cut
The benefits expired last week after a bipartisan budget deal on federal spending for the next two years failed to include a reauthorization of the program.
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Reich: The Triumph of the Right
Conservatives have won by shaping the national conversation around the size of government and the budget deficit, diverting attention away from the increasing concentration of wealth and income at the very top while most Americans fall behind.
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Graeber: On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs
Huge swaths of people spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to be performed. The moral and spiritual damage that comes from this situation is profound, yet no one talks about it.
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Tens of Thousands of Greeks Retake the Streets In General Strike Over Job Cuts
Demonstrators poured into Athens' central Syntagma Square on Tuesday as unions, protesting controversial plans to slash 25,000 public sector jobs, brought the country to a standstill in a fourth general strike this year.
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Social Security's Explosive Injustices
Cutting Social Security is an outrageous injustice that may provoke historic shifts and splits in the political landscape.
