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Meet The Doomsday Boom's Rising Star

Somewhere in Arizona, a man I have known for less than 24 hours is teaching me how to kill a human being with a shovel. Or, should I say, a special customized shovel whose left edge is an axe blade.…
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5730 words)

Slavery's Global Comeback

Buying and selling people into forced labor is bigger than ever. What "human trafficking" really means.Slaves pan for gold in Accra, Ghana. Many have children with them as they wade in water poisoned…
AUTHOR:J.J. Gould
PUBLISHED: Dec. 19, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4091 words)

Slugfest

By the fall of 1994, Edward Kennedy, then 62 years old, had spent more than half his life in the U.S. Senate. He had cruised to reelection five times after his only even slightly competitive…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2055 words)

A World of Hillbilly Heroin

This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com.   During the two years Joe…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2377 words)

Can Street Violence Be Fought Like a Virus?

It’s that time of year again. With summer’s arrival, people flow into the streets of America’s poorest urban neighborhoods. Temperatures rise and tempers get shorter. Old beefs…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2734 words)

Why Elites Fail

This article is adapted from Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy, © 2012 by Christopher Hayes and published by Crown Publishers, a division of Random House Inc.  In 1990, at…
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4580 words)

The Struggle for Justice and a Place to Call Home

After losing her Florida home to foreclosure in 2009, Sheila Ramos has made a home for her family on a patch of rural land on Hawaii's Big Island. (Paul Kiel/ProPublica) Note: This story is not…
AUTHOR:Paul Kiel
PUBLISHED: April 10, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1018 words)
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