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- Ethical sluts and “dirty whores”: Straight talk about sex work
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- Noam Chomsky, the Salon interview: Governments are power systems, trying to sustain power
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- If memory swerves: The 1 percent laughs last, as Wall Street wins again
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- The best and worst music moments of 2013
- The year the book became a luxury object
- Climate change by the numbers: The worst is yet to come
- Monsanto’s scary new scheme: Why does it really want all this data?
- High-profile arrest uncovers plight of India’s invisible workforce
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- “Promise Land”: A skeptic among the gurus