NYU Loans Helped Its Millionaire President Buy His Fire Island Vacation House
New York University loaned its school president John Sexton $1,000,000 to finance his lavish vacation home on Fire Island, according to a report from ...
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What Congress and the Media are Missing in the Food Stamp Debate
We’re proud to collaborate with The Nation in sharing insightful journalism related to income inequality in America. The following is an excerpt ...
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Focus on Guiterrez's Memoir as Immigration Continues to Make Headlines
To Sin Against Hope, the political memoir of former Arizona Senate Leader Alfredo Gutierrez, continues to garner positive press even as ...
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Trendwatcher: The Spies Strike Back
I knew it. I just knew it. After a U.S. spy in a blond wig was taken into custody in Moscow – and the inevitable jokes and references to Austin ...
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Bullies in various spheres
Alternet has an excerpt from Jesse Klein’s new book: The following is an excerpt from Jessie Klein’s new book “The Bully Society: School Shootings ...
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Secret agreements to ensure Americans get substandard food
I detest secret agreements—particularly those agreements that affect the public but are kept secret from the public. Why are they secret?
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Lynn Parramore: Obama Nominates America’s Biggest Walmart Cheerleader as His Chief Economic Adviser
Yves here. The prospect that Jason Furman was being elevated to chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers elicited cheers from members of the ...
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DREAMers reunite with deported parents at U.S./Mexico border
From United We Dream comes a heartbreaking video of three young immigrants being reunited with their mothers through a fence on the Mexican border: ...
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The NSA Has at Least One Liberal Friend Left: Al Franken
It's pretty lonely to be the National Security Agency right now. The revelation of a massive data-collection program has left many progressive ...
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Some police activity this past month
Our police forces have become more militarized and more brutal. Tana Ganeva gives 12 examples from May at AlterNet: American law enforcement has ...
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