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How the Greedy Rich Cheat Working Americans at Every Turn

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By David McCall The widowed single mom attacked grocery shopping with the doggedness of a Marine on a mission.To provide for her family in the face of corporate price-gouging, she bought off-brand items and selected eggs for protein instead of higher-costing meat. She even worked multiple jobs to keep the family solvent.And despite the challenges […]

We Need a Plan for the Transition to Renewable Energy

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By David Fridley and Richard Heinberg The transition to renewable energy is inevitable given the current climate crisis and the fact that fossil fuels are a finite resource. To make the shift, a detailed plan is required to indicate the first steps and anticipate challenges in allocating resources and the policies needed to achieve the […]

The Double Edge Theater’s Project to ‘Rematriate Land’

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By April M. Short The economic realities in the U.S. do not generally support working-class artists and culture bearers—an issue that has only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a March 2021 report titled “Solidarity Not Charity: Arts and Culture Grantmaking in the Solidarity Economy,” 63 percent of creatives in the U.S. were “fully unemployed” as of […]

Discarding Old Theories on the Path to Finding the First Humans Outside Africa

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By Deborah Barsky When I began studying human prehistory in the mid-1990s, little did I know that I would witness a paradigm shift in our understanding of when the first humans settled in Western Eurasia firsthand. At the time, I was preparing my master’s thesis about the stone tools from the Caune de l’Arago cave, an Acheulian site situated in […]

Hoax that launched a thousand lies

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By John Young — Hearing Donald Trump prosecute the Big Lie and Republicans parrot it reminds me of another masterwork in group duplicity. Back when the George W. Bush White House hewed to shifting fallacious pretexts for invading Iraq, a friend remarked: “They have to meet every morning to keep their stories straight.” False comparison, […]

Joe vs. good-for-naught Congress: a KO

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By John Young Not since Rocky Marciano relocated Ezzard Charles’ chin to an adjoining county. Not since a Chuck Stobbs fastball took a 565-foot ride on Mickey Mantle’s bat. Only in sport’s annals can adequate comparisons be found for the thumping Joe Biden laid on stationary Republican targets in Congress in his fourth State of […]