Monthly Archives: August 2013

The Most Dangerous Negro’

Aug 28, 2013 By CHARLES M. BLOW The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” so disturbed the American power structure that the F.B.I. started spying on him in what The Washington Post called “one of its … Continue reading

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Are We Plugged-In, Connected, But Alone?

Copyright ©2013 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. GUY RAZ, HOST: So one day a few years ago, an MIT professor named Sherry Turkle saw something that would change almost … Continue reading

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The Wrong Lesson From Detroit’s Bankruptcy

August 12, 2013   By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ When I was growing up in Gary, Ind., nearly a quarter of American workers were employed in the manufacturing sector. There were plenty of jobs at the time that paid well enough … Continue reading

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George Saunders’s Advice to Graduates

July 31, 2013, 2:44 pm George Saunders’s Advice to Graduates By JOEL LOVELL It’s long past graduation season, but we recently learned that George Saunders delivered the convocation speech at Syracuse University for the class of 2013, and George was … Continue reading

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