Public Prisons, Private Profits
Victoria Law, Truthout: Private prisons hold only 8 percent of the US prison population. But for-profit companies have other ways of profiting from incarceration in local jails and state prisons.
Bold Satire Skewers Political Missteps
Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout: In her new book, Snidelines: Talking Trash to Power, Susie Day uses wit and humor to critique contemporary politics, tackling subjects ranging from Occupy Wall Street, to political prisoners, to the hypocrisy of the religious right.
At the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, Fear Is the Entrée
Joseph Natoli, Truthout: Globalized techno-capitalism will own the future when it totally owns the spin-making machinery. Now, as in the past, its principle weapon in our “psychomachia,” a battle within the US cultural psyche, is fear – from Red Scares to al-Qaeda to ISIS.
Americans Are Working So Hard It’s Actually Killing People
Esther Kaplan, The Nation: While 18.6 million people remain underemployed, millions of others are working more hours, and more intensely, than ever.
A Kansas Group’s Push to Oust Judges Reveals a Gap in Campaign Finance Rules
Robert Faturechi, ProPublica: Judicial retention elections in Kansas have typically been apolitical and uncontested – until Kansans for Justice entered the fray earlier this month. Now state election overseers are grappling with a new kind of dark money.
Why You Need to Know About a Gross Thing Called “GamerGate” – and the Women Who Fight It
Christopher Zumski Finke, YES! Magazine: We can learn a lot about the future of culture wars from a “movement” of video game players angry about efforts to make gaming more welcoming for women.
Obama’s “myRA” Accounts Come Up Short for Savers
Gerald E. Scorse, Los Angeles Times: Though President Obama pointed the way to a promising option for retirement savings with a government-sponsored account aimed at the millions of workers without access to an employer plan, the system has many flaws.
Changing Everything: Naomi Klein on Capitalism and Climate Change
Making Contact, National Radio Project: In her new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, Naomi Klein argues that while it’s too late to stop climate change, we can save our civilization. But it’s going to take radical steps that will transform the way humans interact with the world.
Ayano Ginoza, Michiko Hase and Gwyn Kirk, Foreign Policy in Focus: Despite intense crackdowns, activists on the Japanese island of Okinawa continue to resist the construction of new US military bases.
BuzzFlash
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“Deporter in Chief” Obama Has Alienated Latino Voters
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How Young, Independent Women Are Making a Space for Themselves in Pakistan’s Music Industry
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Scalia’s New Obamacare Test: Will the Activist Judge Ignore Reason and Facts?
On the Fracking Ban-Wagon in Denton
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New Voting Restrictions Could Swing the 2014 Election
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Good for You, Kaci Hickox
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Virgin Galactic Crash: Inquiry Team Lands in Mojave
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