The great pamphleteer of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine, had much more on his mind than independence from the British.
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Tornadoes Can Kill. So Can Amazon’s Business Model.
Old-school home-improvement contractors have a piece of folk wisdom they love to share with prospective clients. “Listen,” they like to say. “I can do this job fast, I can do it cheap, or I can do it well. But I can’t do all three.”
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Treating Workers Like They’re Disposable Is Bad Business
McDonald’s workers in 15 U.S. cities recently staged a weeklong strike demanding a $15 hourly wage for every McDonald’s worker. McDonald’s resisted, pledging only to raise average wages to $13 an hour.
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Essential Workers Take the Risk, CEOs Take the Reward
Every week, millions of us walk into a Walgreens drugstore without giving it a second thought.
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President Trump, Killing Someone Is Not Like Missing a Golf Putt
Trying to keep up with the stunningly inappropriate — and worse — remarks of Donald Trump can sometimes seem like a full-time job. But some of his most outrageous comments came in a recent Fox News interview about police violence.
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Coronavirus and the ‘Shock Doctrine’
We all have to come together. We need to help each other. We don’t have time for politics as usual.
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Trump’s EPA Is a Huge Cancer Risk
This January, President Trump claimed credit for new figures from the American Cancer Society showing “the sharpest one-year drop in cancer death rate ever recorded” between 2016 and 2017.
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Make America… More Like Canada
We Americans tend not to pay much attention to our northern neighbors. Often, entire election cycles can come and go without anyone running for national office saying anything about Canada.