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Romney's "Bain" Drain

Excerpted from “Mitt Romney, Hero of Finance”, by Paul Starr, The American Prospect: Much of the work of Bain and other private equity firms has little to do with the kind of wrenching Schumpeterian [“gales of creative destruction”] change that contributes to growth, still less to the job creation for which Romney claims credit… The standard operating procedure...

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Reich: 'Big Government' Isn't the Problem, Big...

Wall Street got bailed out by taxpayers, but one out of every three homeowners with a mortgage is underwater, caught in the tsunami caused by the Street’s excesses. The bailout wasn’t conditioned on the banks helping these homeowners, and subsequent help has been meager. The recent settlement of claims against the banks is tiny compared with how much homeowners have lost. Millions of people are...

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“‘I am looking for you like a drone, my love,’ goes a popular...”

– Pir Zubair Shah, as seen on Foreign Policy

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A woman's "pre-existing condition"

New research has shown women are paying $1 billion more each year than men for the same health insurance coverage. The report from the National Women’s Law Center says 92 percent of the top plans in states that permit so-called “gender rating” charge women more — even though most of those plans do not cover maternity care. In most states, female non-smokers are also charged more than...

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Moroccans call for end to rape-marriage laws

In case you needed a reminder today how men originally penned all the rules… Activists push to overturn laws allowing rapists to marry their victims, after a 16-year-old girl kills herself. Activists in Morocco have stepped up pressure to overturn laws that allow rapists to marry their victims, after a 16-year-old girl killed herself. Amina Al Filali, 16, drank rat poison last week in...

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