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He Told You So: Julian Assange, the NSA, and Edward Snowden
(ILLUSTRATION: ABODE OF CHAOS/FLICKR)Unpleasant and even unreliable people can produce highly valuable insights; it's the job of interested observers to separate the wheat from the chaff. The irregular...
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Inequality
Palm Springs, California. (Photo: Elizabeth Fladung)Greg, a tall, handsome septuagenarian in a crisp shirt, a dark brocade waistcoat, a colorful selection of bracelets and beautiful calfskin wingtips,...
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Students on the Road to Debt
(Photo: Elizabeth Fladung)Monique, a vivacious, dark-haired graduate student, still owes $60,000 on her undergraduate education. “And that’s with being an R.A. [Resident Advisor] and getting housing...
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The New Heartland: 'We’re Like the India of the United States'
(Photo: Elizabeth Fladung)Rob England, the statewide political coordinator for the Communication Workers of America, has an easy laugh and a perceptive expression; he is 31 with dark hair, a plaid...
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Trekking Through a Food Desert Surrounded by Farmland
(Photo: Elizabeth Fladung)Ceres, California (population 45,000), is named after the Roman goddess of the harvest, and the name is largely an apt one. Ceres is home to all kinds of small farms. There...
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Silicon Valley: Wealth Redistribution, One-Percent Style
(Photo: Elizabeth Fladung)The Puente de la Costa Sur community center sits at the end of a quiet street in Pescadero, an isolated farming town of about 5,000 nestled amid green hills just inland from...
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Surviving in the Shadow of Fortress Twitter
(Photo: Elizabeth Fladung)In January, the New York Times surprised many Californians with the announcement that San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood had acquired a new nickname: The Twitterloin....
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