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Acclaimed journalist, author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich explores the darker side of positive thinking.
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"Many people are not getting by. The human species faces dire ecological threats. Pretending everything will be OK helped get us into…
Has feminism been replaced by the pink-ribbon breast cancer cult? When the House of Representatives passed the Stupak amendment, which would take…
If you can’t find any swine flu vaccine for your kids, it won’t be for a lack of positive thinking. In fact,…
Feminism made women miserable. This, anyway, seems to be the most popular takeaway from "The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness," a recent…
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[Nation Editors Note: In our March 23 issue, we published "Reimagining Socialism," a forum inspired by Barbara Ehrenreich and Bill Fletcher Jr.’s …
In most parts of the world, mass unemployment brings the specter of mass social unrest. Not in the U.S., though, where 13…
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