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Economists fight over “Capital”: Piketty vs. establishment
January 7, 2015A Harvard economist was reduced to making personal attacks as he tried to evade Thomas Piketty's key theses about capitalism and its tendencies toward unsustainable inequality.
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“Here, nobody surrenders”: 56 years since the Cuban Revolution
January 7, 2015The Cubans greeted the victory of the Revolution with rejoicing and a burst of energy as they put their shoulders to the wheel of building a new society on socialist principles.
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Police unions and the challenge of solidarity
January 7, 2015There is no justification for attacks on individual police officers who have little or nothing to do with the policies that have created the dehumanizing of the lives of black people.
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Even with master’s degree, wages are dismal
January 7, 2015Many of the people gathering in Washington this morning at the first-ever AFL-CIO National Summit on Raising Wages didn't have an easy time getting here.
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High and low points of Connecticut’s history with Cuba
January 7, 2015The Dec. 17, 2014 announcement by President Obama establishing full diplomatic relations with Cuba was a day we thought we might never see.
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