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The authors, both psychologists, conclude that “recent generations of young people perceive that others are more demanding of them, are more demanding of others, and are more demanding of themselves.” When identifying the root cause of this growing appetite for excellence, Curran and Hill don’t mince words: it’s neoliberalism. Neoliberal ideology reveres competition, discourages cooperation, promotes ambition, and tethers personal worth to professional achievement. Your Phone Was Made By Slaves: A Primer on the Secret Economy. Kevin Bales | Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World | Spiegel & Grau | January 2016 | 34 minutes (9,162 words) Below is an excerpt from Blood and Earth, by Kevin Bales, as recommended by Longreads contributing editor Dana Snitzky.
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ET Last month, Democratic Senator Ed Markey delivered what seemed like an explosive bit of news during an interview with CNN: A grand jury had been impaneled in New York, he said, to investigate the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia. The only problem: It wasn’t true. The precise origins of the rumor are difficult to pin down, but it had been ricocheting around social media for days before Markey’s interview. The story had no reliable sourcing, and not a single credible news outlet touched it—but it had been fervently championed by The Palmer Report, a liberal blog known for peddling conspiracy theories, and by anti-Trump Twitter crusaders like Louise Mensch. I Know Why Poor Whites Chant Trump, Trump, Trump – STIR Journal. From the era of slavery to the rise of Donald Trump, wealthy elites have relied on the loyalty of poor whites.
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Giroux is University Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest and Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy at McMaster University. His books include "America at War With Itself" and "Dangerous Thinking. " "Because I Moved 5 Shirts"... Portrait Of An Unexpected Twitter Storm. By Katie Hinde – Woooo buddy, it’s been quite the 34 hours.
Sunday night I was looking for super hero t-shirts in the “girls” section at a Big Box Store, not finding them, and then unwittingly jumped down a rabbit hole. From the home, to the classroom, to the store, our culture reinforces limitations on children due to their sex/gender. As a scientist who works on inclusivity in academia and science, I spend a lot of time thinking about the pipeline.
I am particularly concerned about the scarcity and disparity of science & science fiction oriented toys, clothes, and outreach. Capitalism & Mental Illness: Reflections on the Human Costs of Profit » Protected by the largest military in all of human history, the economic empire of the United States has grown into the most advanced capitalist system that ever existed.
In spite of a relatively high standard of living & unprecedented wealth, the US has also managed to develop the world’s highest rates of mental illness. In 2009, the World Mental Health survey found the US at the bottom of world mental health chart with 47.4% — almost half of the population– displaying symptoms of a mental disorder. According to the massive WMH survey, nearly 1 in 3 US citizens struggle with anxiety disorders and a bit more than 1 in 5 suffer from depression, bi-polar, or other mood disorders. How the Trump-Russia Data Machine Games Google to Fool Americans. A year ago I was part of a digital marketing team at a tech company.
This Photo Series Will Make You See Race in a New Way. A new photo series is making people rethink the way the world deals with race in everyday life.
The images, which first appeared in “O, The Oprah Magazine,” reverse racial expectations in simple settings, such as showing a young white girl picking out a toy, faced with row upon row of black dolls. The scenarios are meant to allude to the complexities that, women experience every day in dealing with race. The images are not meant to point fingers, but instead are meant to encourage others to challenge their own mindset and racial expectations, and then to talk about it, the series' photographer, Chris Buck, told Global Citizen. The idea stemmed from a conversation with the creative team at "O" magazine and Oprah Winfrey herself, at Winfrey’s home, according to Lucy Kaylin, the publication’s editor-in-chief. America is Regressing into a Developing Nation for Most People. A new book by economist Peter Temin finds that the U.S. is no longer one country, but dividing into two separate economic and political worlds You’ve probably heard the news that the celebrated post-WW II beating heart of America known as the middle class has gone from “burdened,” to “squeezed” to “dying.”
But you might have heard less about what exactly is emerging in its place. In a new book, The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy, Peter Temin, Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT, draws a portrait of the new reality in a way that is frighteningly, indelibly clear: America is not one country anymore. It is becoming two, each with vastly different resources, expectations, and fates.
Two roads diverged In one of these countries live members of what Temin calls the “FTE sector” (named for finance, technology, and electronics, the industries which largely support its growth). Globalization Is Just a Contemporary Word for Financial Colonialism. The collapsed remains of the Rana Plaza garment factory in near Dhaka, Bangladesh, June 30, 2013. The police in Bangladesh filed formal murder charges June 1, 2015, against 41 people accused of involvement in the 2013 collapse of a building that housed several clothing factories, leaving more than 1,100 people dead in the worst disaster in garment industry history.
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White nationalist movement growing much faster than Isis on Twitter, study finds. The number of white nationalists and self-identified Nazi sympathisers on Twitter have multiplied more than 600 per cent in the last four years, outperforming the so-called Islamic State (Isis) in everything from follower counts to number of daily tweets, a new study found. Researchers at George Washington University’s Programme on Extremism analysed 18 accounts belonging to major white nationalist groups and organisations – such as the American Nazi Party and the National Socialist Movement – mostly located in the US. Politics And The Fracturing Of Shared Reality : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture. At a March 3 Republican presidential primary debate, candidates (from left) Marco Rubio, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and John Kasich appear on stage at Fox Theatre in Detroit. This is how we can fight Donald Trump’s attack on democracy.
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