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Free press showdown

The insatiable demands of the military industrial complex are a barrier to human flourishing on a livable planet.

A coalition of civil rights groups expects the turnout on Oct. 18 will be even bigger than the first nationwide protest held in June, which by some counts was the largest in U.S. history.

It took an American president unbound by traditional domestic constraints to get this done and provide the parties with what they could accept

Universities need to recognize that they are being targeted because of what they represent, not because of what they’ve failed to do, and resist accordingly.

The board of Professional Educators of North Carolina, an organization with 1,700 members across the state, voted unanimously to affiliate with the American Federation of Teachers, which has 1.8 million members and 3,870 active affiliates nationwide.

A world away from their parents’ Iron Curtain upbringings, young New Yorkers with roots from Poland to Turkmenistan are helping power the Democratic mayoral nominee’s sunny socialist campaign.

Pigou noted the problem that Marx had only glancingly acknowledged: that the production of commodities was often accompanied by unintentional and sometimes severe physical side effects.

The Hands Off NYC campaign — backed by the city’s largest labor unions and civic groups, launched a citywide campaign to “protect and prepare” the city from potential federal or military intervention.

Wilson draws on the work of researchers like Russell Belk (on “the extended self”), Paul Rozin (on magical thinking), and Marcel Mauss (on gift-giving) to help us understand why we invest so much meaning in material things.