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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.
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How Drug Courts Are Falling Short
In the drug war, drug courts offer just another example of failure of criminal industrial complex. Christine Mehta writes.
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What Japanese Internment Taught Us About Standing Up for Our Neighbors
Community means looking out for all neighbors and members, not just those who look like you. Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz writes.
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How participatory budgeting can transform community engagement – An interview with Amir Campos
Can the public really have a say in how money is spent in their cities? Amir Campos thinks so in this interview with Diana Krebs.
