Category: Culture
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When Barclays Was Caught with Huge Secrets for Its Investors
Sometimes not even money is sufficient to hide bankers from reality. Waqar Hassan digs into the Barclays scandal.
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Women Are Bearing the Brunt of Our Most Punitive Drug Policies
From Colombia to Thailand, drug policy reforms are urgently needed to end the mass incarceration of women for drug offenses. Colletta Youngers and Nischa Pieris report.
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Poland Is Pioneering the World’s First National Open Textbook Program
Poland goes open with their education. Melissa Hagemann and Piroska Hugyecz write.
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The Other “Turkeys”
There are as many Turkeys as there are people living within its borders. Is it really a good thing that we rely on proving the worth of other places and other lives by pointing out how similar they are to our own?
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What is an Open Business Model and How Can You Generate Revenue?
Paul Stacey’s latest inquiry into the idea of an open business model finds him asking, “How do you make money if your stuff is free?”
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Draw the Line
Displacement won’t be stopped unless new residents of gentrifying neighborhoods join the organizing efforts that already exist. Cynthia Tobar interviews José Lopez about his housing activism in Bushwick.
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A Syrian Asks Herself: Am I Capable of Killing?
Marcell Shehwaro describes the realities of life in Syria during the ongoing armed conflict between forces loyal to the current regime, and those seeking to oust it.
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Asking the Wrong Question
Stephen Bezruchka asks the right questions about our wrong answers.
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Who’s Regulating For-Profit Schools? Execs From For-Profit Colleges
Many accreditors of for-profit schools come from schools that have been under investigation. Annie Waldman reports.
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The Upcoming Financial Crisis of 2016?
The case seems decided: the market decline is explained by the generosity of central banks. This interpretation, however, forgets why this very accommodative monetary policy has become inevitable. Nader Haddad writes.