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This article originally appeared on AlterNet. Mariana Mazzucato is a professor in the Economics of Innovation program at the Science Policy Research Unit of the University of Sussex. Her widely acclaimed book, The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths, reveals the critical role that we, the taxpayers, play in the creation of the most…
Don Lemon and Sunny Hostin YouTube screenshot /sl-art-illo-cap /sl-art-illo-cntr Don Lemon is forever on the wrong side of everything. Whether he’s questioning the Black Lives Matter movement, asking people if they’re offended by the n-word or stealing the spotlight from a llama, CNN’s anchor seems to effortlessly make asinine statements. Monday night, Lemon was…
CNN’s Don Lemon took heat on his own show, CNN Tonight, on Tuesday after claiming viewers simply didn’t have enough information to reach a conclusion about the brutal arrest of a teenage black girl caught on video Monday. The clips shows Richland County Sheriff’s Deputy Ben Fields violently flipping over the student’s desk at Columbia, South Carolina’s Spring…
A couple of weeks ago, Jean Francois Painchaud was just another Canadian animator – working for the PBS kids show Wild Kratts by day, making sexually explicit GIFs by night. Little did he know, when he sat in front of his computer at 10AM last Monday, that things were going to change. Jean Francois had been…
CREDIT: AP Photo/Brian Bohannon YUM Brands CEO David Novak, who has the biggest retirement nest egg The pay gap between what CEOs make and what they pay their workers is pretty well known. A new report released on Wednesday illuminates a different gap: that between what CEOs have stashed away for retirement and what…
A new study suggests that programs like food stamps and housing vouchers cut poverty by almost twice as much as we thought they did. According to standard census numbers, the poverty rate in New York from 2008 to 2011 was 13.6 percent, before taking these programs into account. The programs the study examines — food stamps (a.k.a….
.entry-header October 27, 2015, 5:36 PM EDT E-mail Tweet Facebook Linkedin Share icons You know that “Other” inbox on Facebook, the one whose messages you never notice and are mostly spam? Well, it’s going away, Facebook said on Tuesday. Instead, Facebook FB is replacing it with what it calls “Message Requests,” which will appear at…
A very nice editor at Huffington Post contacted me yesterday, and asked me if I would be willing to grant permission for the site to republish my post about the seven things I did to reboot my life. Huffington Post has a lot of views, and reaches a pretty big audience, and that post is…
The scariest thing in American politics already walks among us. AJ+ – 5 Ways America Is Already Socialist.
A text that Caroline Sinders sent her mother after discovering that a SXSW panel she organized had been threatened. (Courtesy of Sinders) SXSW Interactive, one of the country’s largest technology conferences, abruptly canceled two panels linked to Gamergate last night after receiving what it termed “numerous threats of on-site violence.” One panel, titled “Level Up”…