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Why Isn’t Sen. Kirk’s “Chicago Will Become Detroit” Threat National News? Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk plainly threatened the people of Chicago. If Rahm Emanuel was not re-elected mayor, he declared, banksters and bond market investors concerned about the city’s mountain of debt would see that Chicago went the way of Detroit.
Can Democracy Survive Aggressive Global Capitalism? British-born novelist and author Rana Dasgupta raises concerns that India’s economic rise has come with massive inequality, environmental destruction and potential social unrest.
No Second Chances When It Comes to Housing. Advocates are organizing against what they say is an overlooked civil rights issue: the exclusion of ex-offenders, overwhelmingly people of color, from public and subsidized housing.