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The UN should mandate an end to the siege of Gaza as a first step towards a settlement.

A look at the book by Daniel Schulman about the dynastic feud between the Koch Brothers and how they do what they do.

The lack of wage growth is one reason why many consumers feel that the broader economic recovery hasn’t reached their wallets. The problem has divided academics and fueled political debate on Capitol Hill and across the country, turning an increase in the minimum wage, for example, into a central issue in the midterm elections.

Nugent Gets Dumped; Disney Investment Gets Cancelled; Celebrities Get Deleted; NY Times Gets Called Out; Koch Brothers Get Rejected; Waltons Get Ecumenical

Here are the five top ways the US is actively helping Israel in its war on Gaza, and despite the US State Department's latest protest over the Israeli shelling of a school in Gaza.

For sheer surrealism, Miéville's The City and the City induces very strange feelings: it's a detective noir set in two eastern European cities that occupy the same space but refuse to accept each other's existence. Wallander would be on the next flight home to Sweden. Stross and Miéville aren't the only ones worth reading. Some remarkable writers are out there, available both in ebooks and in hard copy.

Why are union miners falling for the company line that there’s a “war on coal” when the coal and gas companies are really making a war on ALL of us, on our planet, on our children’s futures and certainly on those very miners who are marching on behalf of the coal companies?

The war in Gaza has strengthened both the Muslim Right and the Jewish Right; while the results have been disastrous for the people of Gaza, they aren't good for the people of Israel either. Meredith Tax asks, what does this mean for the two state solution?

Dr, Dollar addresses a popular myth about minimum wage increases, and explains why inflation isn't as bad as some might think.

According to the US Department of Labor, the affected employees worked at the firm's offices in California, Illinois, Nebraska and New York.