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The real reason Mark Wahlberg earns US$42m more than any woman in Hollywood
By Deborah Dean Why should we care that, in Hollywood, female actors earn less than male ones? The latest tally of star pay, compiled by Forbes magazine, ... -
I was an Exxon-funded climate scientist
By Katharine Hayhoe ExxonMobil’s deliberate attempts to sow doubt on the reality and urgency of climate change and their donations to front groups to disseminate false information about climate change ... -
Cooperation is the key to defeating pirates – here’s why
By Mark Chadwick Pirates are notoriously hard to capture. Their actions occur on the shifting, vast expanse of the open oceans. Perpetrators cannot simply be ... -
How union stakes in ailing papers like the Chicago Sun-Times may keep them alive
By Marick Masters The recent purchase of the Chicago Sun-Times for a nominal US$1 by a consortium of labor-affiliated organizations and individual investors highlights the troubled state of the newspaper ... -
Stranding CEOs Too Slow To Quit, Trump Disbands His OwnBusiness Councils
"Trump aides: History is pounding its knuckles on the White House door and shouting that it's time to leave."byJulia Conley, staff writer By Julia Conley ... -
Spotify may soon dominate music the way Google does search — this is why
By Paul X. McCarthy While competition online starts the same way as that in offline markets, my research shows it often settles very differently online. Both have seen ... -
Corporations Complain Their Taxes So High, But New Study Busts That Myth
Minimum-wage workers can't afford to rent a one-bedroom apartment, but the GOP thinks it's massive corporations that need an income boost By Jake Johnson Corporate ... -
'The day the world changed' – a former trader on how the credit crunch kicked ...
By Alexis Stenfors When I received a phone call from a trader colleague at Merrill Lynch on August 9 2007, I was in the middle of ... -
Wall Street Fines Down 66% Under Trump's Goldman Sachs-Filled Administration
"You do have to wonder when working-class Trump supporters will start to notice such things." By Jake Johnson Since taking office in January, President Donald ... -
How welfare’s work requirements can deepen and prolong poverty: Rose’s story
By Kristin Seefeldt After “Rose” lost her low-wage job in a southeast Michigan nursing home, the single mother of four sought Temporary Assistance to Needy Families ...