The interaction of global climate change, poverty, affluence, and overpopulation
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Volkswagen’s Big Lie
How VW’s decision to double down on a fossil-fuel technology led it into deceit and disaster.Â
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How Plutocrats Cripple the IRS
You pay more because elites use their influence to pay less.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Did Cuomo Miss His Chance to Enact Ethics Reform?
Watchdogs worry that the state’s best chance at rooting out corruption has slipped away, yet again.
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The Strange Silence about Sanders’s Tax Proposals
Bernie Sanders has proposed tax increases that ought to give Democrats pause, but hardly anyone is talking about them.
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The Jackie Robinson Story: Ken Burns Documentary Captures the Man and the Movement
The Ken Burns documentary airing on PBS this week demonstrates how the fight to break baseball’s racial barrier went beyond Robinson’s personal heroism and rested on a broad political movement.
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School Closures: A Blunt Instrument
Shuttering “failed schools” can have painful consequences for children and neighborhoods.
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The Great Diversion
Charter schools may or may not improve student outcomes—but they divert funds from other public schools.
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The Other Woman: Elizabeth Warren and the 2016 Election
Senator Warren is not running, but she will be a major influence this year.Â
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The Long March of Bernie’s Army
Where it came from; where it’s headed.
