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How I lost my fear of Universal Health Care

When I moved to Canada in 2008, I was a die-hard conservative Republican. So when I found out that we were going to be covered by Canada’s Universal Health Care, I was somewhat disgusted. This…
AUTHOR:Melissa
PUBLISHED: July 9, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2140 words)

The Mystery Man Behind the Most Disturbing Internet Meme in History

Sometime in the late 20th century a naked man bent over, spread his ass and took a picture. Eventually that picture, known as Goatse, became one of the most venerable memes in internet history. Who…
SOURCE:gawker.com
PUBLISHED: April 10, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4056 words)
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Why San Francisco hates Los Angeles

Photo by 20 buckz. I’M FROM LOS ANGELES, and I love San Francisco. I’d never call it San Fran or crowd the streetcars on my way to eat Ghiradelli chocolate and Boudin bread bowls of clam…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 9, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2556 words)

The Psychology of Home: Why Where You Live Means So Much

There's a reason why the first thing we often ask someone when we meet them, right after we learn their name, is "where's home for you?" My house is a shrine to my homes. There's a triptych of…
AUTHOR:Julie Beck
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1421 words)

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In the Wake of Protest: One Woman's Attempt to Unionize Amazon

Inspired by the WTO protests, a demonstrator took a job in an Amazon warehouse to try and unionize the workers thereOccupy demonstrators are shutting down ports along the West Coast today. For a…
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4707 words)

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LENGTH: 7 minutes (1780 words)

Hostages of child prostitution

Reporting from Las Vegas …
PUBLISHED: Oct. 6, 2011
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2067 words)

The Limping Middle Class

THE 5 percent of Americans with the highest incomes now account for 37 percent of all consumer purchases, according to the latest research from Moody’s Analytics. That should come as no surprise. Our society has become more and more unequal.
PUBLISHED: Sept. 3, 2011
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1606 words)
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