With virtually no police, crime or unemployment, meet the Spanish town described as a democratic, socialist utopia. Unemployment is non-existent in Marinaleda, an Andalusian village in southern Spain that is prosperous thanks
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Recently, news broke that Rolling Jubilee, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the eradication of debt, purchased $4 million in private student loan debt and forgave all of it, relieving some 2,000 Americans of that oppressive burden. The group purchased the loans for pennies on the dollar from the notorious for-profit Everest College. And it’s only the beginning –according to Rolling Jubilee’s website, they’ve for
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This week, tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents turned out to protest China’s plan for bringing democracy to that city. Rather than letting voters pick the candidates that get to run for chief executive, Beijing wants the candidates selected by a 1,200 person “nominating committee.” Critics charge the committee will be “dominated by a pro-Beijing business and political elite.” “We want genuine universal suffrage,” Martin Lee, founding chairman of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party demanded, “not democracy with Chinese
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Rotten to the Core: How an Apple mega-deal cost Los Angeles classrooms $1 billion
Bad business and worse ethics? A scandal is brewing in L.A. over a sketchy intiative to give every student an iPad
Technology companies may soon be getting muddied from a long-running scandal at the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the nation’s second-largest system. A year after the cash-strapped district signed a $1 billion contract with Apple to purchase iPad
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Courts say cops can shoot out of "reasonable fear." In America that entails a myth of race and gender neutrality
Recently, Tamara Nopper and Mariame Kaba authored a haunting article, “Itemizing Atrocity,” analyzing reactions and analyses of the police shooting of Michael Brown and the seemingly sudden militarization of the police. They point to Ferguson as an example of the excess of the spectacle that draws
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For every U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan during 11 years of war, at least 13 children were shot and killed in America.
More than 450 kids didn’t make it to kindergarten.
Another 2,700 or more were killed by a firearm before they could sit behind the wheel of a car.
Every day, on average, seven children were shot dead.
A News21 investigation of child and youth deaths in America between 2002 and 2012 found that at least 28,000 children and teens 19-years-old and younger were killed
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Tonight, thousands of homeless people in the United States will face the possibility of arrest because they do not have a safe place to sleep. Thousands more could be arraigned for sitting or standing in the wrong place. While they must rest their legs, homeless people live in cities where these and other life sustaining activities are against the law, even as shelters face a critical shortage of beds.
Criminalization laws can take many forms. Most commonly, they outlaw sitting, sleeping in vehicles or outdoors, lying down, "hanging out,” sharing food and camping. What makes them even more insidious is that they can be difficult to detect. Curfews on public parks are often explained by municipalities as a way to deter drug-related crimes. In reality, they are frequently a
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This picture Samm Newman posted on her instagram page got her kicked off the social network.
CREDIT: Instagram: @snicolen58
In the photograph, Samm Newman is smiling. She’s got that Lorde look with her wet, curly hair tossed all the way to one side. Her eyes are as blue as the cover of her cell phone, and she poses for the selfie hand at her side, stomach bare. Her white bra and pink polka dot underwear don’t match, not that they even need to, because that’s not the point. She’s happy and she’s proud. She’s also 19 years old. And a si
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Claire McCaskill released her report on college sexual assault, and the findings are grim
The national survey found more than 40 percent of schools hadn't conducted a single rape investigation in 5 years
Recent data analysis from the Washington Post revealed that 45 percent of colleges with more than 1,000 students reported zero rape cases in 2012. Knowing what we do about the statistical preva
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Google purges negative press coverage of former Wall Street CEO from search results
Has former Merrill Lynch CEO Stan O'Neal been scrubbing the Web of things that make him feel bad?
That didn’t take long. In May, when the European Court of Justice ruled that Google must respect the “right to be forgotten” and remove links to information that individuals might consider personally embarrassing, I ... Read more »
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Recently, news broke that Rolling Jubilee, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the eradication of debt, purchased $4 million in private student loan debt and 
This week, tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents turned out to protest China’s plan for bringing democracy to that city. Rather than letting voters pick the candidates that get to run for chief executive, Beijing wants the candidates selected by a 1,200 person “nominating committee.” Critics charge the committee will be “dominated by a pro-Beijing business and political elite.” “We want genuine universal suffrage,” Martin Lee, founding chairman of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party demanded, “not democracy with Chinese
Technology companies may soon be getting muddied from a long-running scandal at the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the nation’s second-largest system. A year after the cash-strapped district signed a 
Recently, Tamara Nopper and Mariame Kaba 
For every U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan during 11 years of war, at least 13 children were shot and killed in America.
Tonight, thousands of homeless people in the United States will face the possibility of arrest because they do not have a safe place to sleep. Thousands more could be arraigned for sitting or standing in the wrong place. While they must rest their legs, homeless people live in cities where these and other life sustaining activities are against the law, even as shelters face a critical shortage of beds.
Recent data analysis from the Washington Post revealed that 45 percent of colleges with more than 1,000 students reported zero rape cases in 2012. Knowing what we do about the 
That didn’t take long. In May, when the European Court of Justice 
