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January 2, 2015

Joseph Stiglitz: Economics Has to Come to Terms With Wealth and Income Inequality

Lynn Parramore Institute for New Economic Thinking

Nobel laureate in economics Joseph Stiglitz talks about what forces are driving economic inequality and a policy framework for reversing the trend.

January 2, 2015

Why 2014 Will Be Remembered as the Year the Sports World Turned Upside Down

Dave Zirin The Nation

The game has changed, and the bosses are operating on outdated software. They are losing in a contest where they barely seem to grasp the rules. Meanwhile players, fans and political activists have been able to take the carefully scripted narrative of corporate sports and engineer a series of dramatic rewrites.

January 2, 2015

Why I Am Optimistic About the Future of Race Relations in America

Jamelle Bouie Slate

Even amid the racial turmoil of 2014, we are making progress.

What's Really Weird About Placebos

January 2, 2015

Dr. Ben Goldacre doing standup at Nerdstock. In this bit, Goldacre explains that not only do placebos have real effects, they even have real side effects.

Movie: The Imitation Game

January 2, 2015

The story of Alan Turing, British mathematician, logician, cryptologist and computer scientist who led the effort to crack the German Enigma Code, helping the Allies win WWII. After the war Turing was prosecuted by the UK government for homosexual acts.

Top 10 Surprising People Who Advocated Socialism

January 2, 2015

Ten world-famous contributors to the betterment of humankind who advocated socialism: Mark Twain, Albert Einstein, George Orwell, Pablo Picasso. Who are the other six?

Neil deGrasse Tyson on 'Interstellar'

January 2, 2015

How realistic is the space epic flick Interstellar? Neil deGrasse Tyson talks to (cognitive dissonance alert!) Fox News about the realism (and the "stretchers") of "Interstellar."

Michael Franti - Same As It Ever Was

January 2, 2015

Michael Franti says, "When we all see justice, then we'll all see peace. Start today."

January 2, 2015

Friday Nite Videos -- January 2, 2015

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Michael Franti - Same As It Ever Was. Neil deGrasse Tyson on 'Interstellar.' Top 10 Surprising People Who Advocated Socialism. Movie: The Imitation Game. What's Really Weird About Placebos.

January 1, 2015

The 9 Most Important Victories for Workers in 2014

Amien Essif In These Times

Fast-food and retail workers demonstrating in record numbers, cities across the country raising their minimum wage under public pressure, student athletes gaining recognition as employees of their universities, the labor movement has seen some important—and, at times, unexpected—victories this past year.