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May 11, 2018
Photos: Depression-era billboards sold and celebrated the “American way”
Meanwhile, homeless families…
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Olivia Campbell
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Sep 13, 2017
Here’s what happened when Reagan went after healthcare programs. It’s not good.
The latest cuts have a…
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Heather Tirado Gilligan
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May 18, 2017
It’s the black working class—not white—that was hit hardest by industrial collapse
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Louis Anslow
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May 18, 2017
Taxing robots was suggested in the 1940s. It was a bad idea then, but things have changed.
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Stephanie Buck
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May 15, 2017
The reason you answer work email on the weekend is actually 500 years old
Blame the British
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Matt Reimann
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May 5, 2017
This best-selling book turned socialism into a middle-class trend in the 1880s
And not just in Brooklyn
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Heather Tirado Gilligan
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Dec 20, 2016
What would Ayn Rand think of her admirer Donald Trump?
The famously rigid thinker didn’t even like…
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Meagan Day
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Jun 6, 2016
Free money for living: a 500-year-old idea that’s having a moment
Can basic income solve inequality?
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Meagan Day
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May 6, 2016
Is the $90 million Lesedi La Rona diamond actually worthless?
How a clever cartel dreamed up the ingenious scam of the diamond market, and why couples happily play along
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Meagan Day
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Mar 10, 2016
China’s ghost cities are vacant, and its migrant workers need homes. So what’s the holdup?
It’s more complicated than killing two birds with one stone
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