Category Archives: Business World

European art & the financial crisis: yes, it matters

By Feature Writer | Published: February 17, 2010
The supposedly decadent arts were co-opted into New Labour’s post-socialist agenda.
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Rethinking Work: journalism as labor

By Sarah Jaffe | Published: February 11, 2010
The Internet did not kill journalism—profit-seeking did.
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Arbitration & mediation in the Arab world: an excerpt

By Nasser Ali Khasawneh | Published: January 31, 2010
There are at least two verses in the Koran that sanction the notion of arbitration and mediation.
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Rethinking Work: art as labor

By Sarah Jaffe | Published: January 26, 2010
A survey noted that while 96% of U.S. respondents thought art was valuable, only 27% of them valued the artists who make it.
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From Google to “Free Tibet”: an image of big, bad, horrific China

By Feature Writer | Published: January 15, 2010
China, like Russia under Putin, is a bogeyman figure for liberal Westerners.
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The weird elitism of “the personal is political” saps our strength

By Sarah Jaffe | Published: January 10, 2010
You cannot buy your way out of the climate crisis one Burt's Bees product at a time.
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Climate change: Copenhagen may be our last chance

By Erik Loomis | Published: December 15, 2009
Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe has done more damage to climate change reform that any single American.
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Broken promises: Ireland’s 2010 Budget exploits the vulnerable

By Feature Writer | Published: December 10, 2009
That the Government has spent €4 bn on the putrid, festering sore that is Anglo Irish Bank was not mentioned.
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Homa Katouzian: how the West should deal with Iran’s nuclear ambitions

By Jonathan Mok | Published: November 29, 2009
"Even a nuclear Iran could not initiate a war with Israel."
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On work: the peculiar state of the U.S. labor market, and more

By Sarah Jaffe | Published: November 22, 2009
“You should be grateful to have the job,” we hear, and we don't complain.
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