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Abolish High School
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Ididn’t go to high school. This I think of as one of my proudest accomplishments and one of my greatest escapes, because everyone who grows up in the United States…

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Unread at Any Speed
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By Ralph Nader, from Return to Sender, a collection of 115 unanswered letters Nader sent to George W. Bush and Barack Obama between 2000 and 2015, out this month from Seven Stories Press.

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Genre Friction

From a February order by a U.S. magistrate judge denying summary judgment in Latele Television, C.A. v. Telemundo Communications Group, LLC. The suit argues that El Rostro de AnalÍa, a telenovela produced by Telemundo, infringes on…

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Saving the Whale, Again
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The catastrophic incompetence of Citigroup

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American Hustle
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How elite youth basketball exploits African athletes

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In Regulation Nation
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By David Graeber, from The Utopia of Rules, published last month by Melville House. Graeber is the author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years. His most recent article for Harper’s…

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Nice Work
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Scarcely four years have passed since workers at the Vega plant in Lordstown, Ohio, went out on strike, not for more money or shorter hours, but to protest the pressure…

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On Not Being Well Read
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I loved reading before I could read. I have a distinct memory — yes, our memories are subject to lapses and improvisations, but this one has been around so long I…

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The Spy Who Fired Me
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The human costs of workplace monitoring

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Giving Up the Ghost
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The eternal allure of life after death

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Shirking 9 to 5

From a list of reasons given for missing work, collected by CareerBuilder in a survey completed by 2,303 hiring managers and human-resources professionals.

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