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The Oscars aren’t just a competition for cultural value: They double as an assessment tool that helps pick the industry’s economic winners and losers.

President Obama’s proposed plan is too little, too late.

When It Comes to People of Color, the Police Make San Francisco “Baghdad by the Bay”.

MSNBC cuts MHP; FBI wants your data, 1, 2 & 3; GOP out to neuter net neutrality

It used to be a dirty word. Bernie Sanders helped remove the stigma – but it’s the spectacular failure of capitalism that has really changed people’s minds.

From May 4-15, 350.org, Greenpeace and many other organizations — notably grassroots movement organizations from every continent — will hold a global week of action called Break Free From Fossil Fuels. Break Free From Fossil Fuels participants will define themselves to the movement, the public and the courts not as criminals but as law-enforcers trying to enforce legal rights and halt governments and corporations from committing the greatest crime in human history.

The movie, which has been nominated for six Academy Awards including best picture, (now we know it won Best Picture) vividly captures the mix of frustration, drudgery and excitement that goes into every great investigative story. Where liberties were taken, and there were a few, they are in line with the realities of the news business.

It all started when the original Hollywood mogul, Louis B. Mayer, wanted to build a beach house.

Thousands of attorneys perform tasks so routine that some believe they should get the same protections as the rest of the hourly workforce.