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Ivory Tower Inc.

For those of us who have flirted with a life in academia, Marc Bousquet's How the University Works:… more

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Bad Days for Newsrooms — and Democracy

The decline of newspapers is not about the replacement of the antiquated technology of newsprint with the lightning… more

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Axle of Evil

Drastic wage cuts drive UAW members to picket American Axle & Manufacturing

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Selling Out Grandma

In late 2007, the investment firm The Carlyle Group purchased one of the country's largest nursing home chains… more

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No New Year Resolutions?

SEC proposes curbing shareholder power

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Blackwater Nation

Contracting soldiers of fortune is only one example of our recent philosophy of government

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Offsets Arent Enough

Two environmental groups cave in to Big Coal in Texas

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Sicko’s Critics and the Upside of Hitler

Critics of the movie are hooked on pharmaceutical company payouts and part of a system that is rotten to the marrow and should be put out of its misery

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Fighting Corporate Copper in Bougainville

Multinational polluter Rio Tinto sued under Alien Tort Claims Act for causing deaths of 10,000 Papua New Guineans

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Postal Rates = Free Press

Rate hike pushed by media conglomerate Time Warner threaten small and medium-circulation publications

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Spoils of War

Oil, the U.S.-Middle East Free Trade Area and the Bush Agenda

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Children of the Brand

As I sat in the café of a Borders bookstore in Chicago huddled over my laptop and struggling… more

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Seeing Red about Thinking Pink

The "pink" slogan behind National breast Cancer Awareness Month has become consumer-oriented and emphasizes an individualistic approach to healthcare.

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The E. coli Free Market

The E. Coli outbreak is caused by the deregualtion and mass production of food by corporate agriculture's economies of scale.

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Corporate Secrecy Spreads Pharmafakes

The pharmaceutical industry keeps health information confidential in order to sell pharmafakes for big profits.

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Stunning Revelations

The untold story of Taser-related deaths

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Halliburton Hearts Congress

Do partisanship and cronyism trump congressional oversight and corporate accountability?

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Cola Wars in Mexico

Tzotzil Indians in Mexico know the dangers of globalization and soda pop.

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If the Paint Sticks, Sling It

MoveOn uses new "Caught red-handed" ad campaign to highlight Republican congressional candidates who put special interests before the public good.

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Bigger Salaries for Big Box Workers?

Will Chicago Pass a Big Box Ordinance to raise worker wages?

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Rot in the Barrel

Take a moment to savor the convictions of top Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling. Anything short… more

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Biofuel Challenges Big Oil

Biofuel corporations promise big benefits, but environmentalists have their doubts

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Troublemakers Are Great--But Are They Enough?

Workers who make trouble for their bosses (and their unions) met up at the Labor Notes Conference.

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Cancer in a Can

Fifteen years ago the Food and Drug Administration said, "Trust us." Its scientists had found benzene, a known… more

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Coal Miners Slaughter

For a couple of klieg-lit days in rainy West Virginia, we were reminded--once again--that the dark and hidden… more

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Snap, Crackle Patents

Can you patent the business method of selling cereal? One company gave it a shot.

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Symbol of the System

What do you get when you cross gutted labor laws with a corporate culture of impunity? Why, Wal-Mart, of course!

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Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

Sexist antics and union-busting cast doubt on American Apparel's progressive cred

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Battling Big Cola

Parents and health advocates fight to make sure Pepsi is not the choice of a new generation

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Chiquitas Children

In the ’70s and ’80s, the banana companies Dole, Del Monte and Chiquita used a carcinogenic pesticide, Nemagon,… more

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Not Far from the Tree

Alex Gibney’s Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is based on the eponymous book by Peter Elkind… more

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GMs Healthcare Double Standard

Bad ideology trumps good business

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The Dead Hand of Disney

It’s a strange thing when a letter from the school principal arrives on lime green and aqua stationery.… more

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Environmental Hogwash

The EPA works with factory farms to delay regulation of ‘Extremely Hazardous Substances.’

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The Gap Minds Itself

The fashion giant releases a candid report detailing the industry’s squalid working conditions

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Detention Center Blues

On April 7, politicians and law enforcement officials gathered in Tacoma, Washington, to celebrate the opening of the… more

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The Wal-Mart Effect

The hows and whys of beating the Bentonville behemoth

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If Shirts Could Speak

I’ve just returned from Bangladesh, and I am angry. Not, of course, with the people. They were incredibly… more

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In Sheeps Clothing

Benetton is color blind, except when it comes to its profits

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Downsizing the CEO

Labor and shareholders unite to roll back executive power

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