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A newly constructed apartment building collapsed in Shanghai in 2009, killing one worker.

Richard Wolff on Leaving our Unstable System(5)

June 20, 2012

For 50 years, it has been impossible in the United States to seriously debate or criticize our economic system. The different points of view represent different ways of cheerleading for it. So in a sense, we shouldn’t be so surprised that our system isn’t working real well. The key difference between now and the Great ...

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Editorial: The Escape Artist

In late 2010, then-candidate Rahm Emanuel was ruled ineligible to run for mayor. City law requires office-seekers to have lived in Chicago for the previous year; Emanuel had lived in Washington. While the law likely would have applied to any of us, Emanuel won a ruling in his favor and wriggled out with public sympathy. ...


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