Year: 2017
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Trump, Threats to Data, and US Cities
Notes on the struggle to keep the US government from going back on its promises of greater transparency. John Wonderlich writes.
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What Hospitals Waste
The nation’s health care tab is sky-high. Marshall Allen began tracking down the reasons. First stop: A look at all the perfectly good stuff hospitals throw away.
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Shorter Work Weeks Will Defeat the Robots
Dean Baker returns to robots and jobs and leisure.
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Sunday Comics
Watch it burn, reluctantly he leaves/Watch it burn, Sunday Comics make him wheeze/Watch it burn, humming “Sherry,” splits the scene
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Immortal Impressions
Using an early photographic process, one photographer hopes to draw a line connecting what happened to the Dakota people in Mankato, Minnesota, 155 years ago and what is happening today to the Dakota/Lakota standing up to a $3.7 billion crude oil pipeline.
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Free Thing of the Week: Gog and Magog
For your summer reading, The Star brings you a free new epub of Ciaran O’Driscoll’s chapbook, Gog and Magog to make you feel the verse.
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Diversity Helps Us All
It’s still possible to seek diversity, even for white guys in corporate America. Jack Botam writes.
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Mirror Websites Are Helping Turkish Users Reconnect to Wikipedia
Arzu Geybullayeva reports on the ways to get around the Turkish blackout of Wikipedia.

