politique
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La culture toxique de Goldman Sachs
Today is my last day at Goldman Sachs. After almost 12 years at the firm — first as a summer intern while at Stanford, then in New York for 10 years, and now in London — I believe I have worked here long enough to understand the trajectory of its culture, its people and its…
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Les leçons à tirer des films catastrophes
Their special effects can be realistic enough to make us feel like we are right there in the heart of the storm. But frequently, the heroes and heroines of these movies respond to disasters in ways that bear no resemblance to what people in the real world should do. We can nevertheless use disaster films…
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Un cas d’école d’inculture économique
Le Wall Street Journal commente aussi l’affirmation, dimanche, par Nicolas Sarkozy à Villepinte, selon laquelle la France ne pourra plus financer son système social «si les frontières ne sont pas mieux contrôlées» : «C’est une pensée immonde, pas seulement en raison des sentiments bas auxquels elle fait appel, mais aussi parce qu’il s’agit d’un cas…
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La Turquie et les journalistes emprisonnés
Quick: What country jails the most journalists? If you guessed China, you were close, but no cigar. Twenty-seven reporters are in prison there, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists in New York. If you guessed Iran, you’re getting warmer—forty-two in prison there—but you’re still off. How many of you guessed Turkey? » Turkey’s Jailed…
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The dying demographic of right-wing talk radio
Ninety-eight major advertisers—including Ford and Geico—will no longer air spots on Premiere Networks’ offensive’ programs. Insiders say the loss will rock right-wing talk radio. (…) But this latest controversy comes at a particularly difficult time for right-wing talk radio. They are playing to a (sometimes literally) dying demographic. Rush & Co. rate best among old,…
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Pour Access Copyright, un lien internet est une copie
Access Copyright collects royalties for course packs, anthologies of readings from books and journals compiled by professors. Under the agreement, the fee has been changed from $3.83 plus 10 cents a page to a flat fee of $27.50 for all course packs, which students pay. The agency also states that hyperlinks to copyright material —…
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La guerre à la drogue comme politique raciste
The book marshals pages of statistics and legal citations to argue that the get-tough approach to crime that began in the Nixon administration and intensified with Ronald Reagan’s declaration of the war on drugs has devastated black America. Today, Professor Alexander writes, nearly one-third of black men are likely to spend time in prison at…
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Pinkwashing
But Saturday’s protesters felt differently. Palestinian queers have reached out to us, said Emmaia Gelman of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, and you can’t fight for queer rights in a state with no civil society. Several protesters, many of whom said they were Jewish, invoked what they called pinkwashing, Israel’s alleged touting of its progressive stance on…
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A no-brainer
Her views expand to feminism and her opinion that men should be welcomed into the movement. « I don’t think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion … we must face and address those issues, especially to include younger men and boys, » she says, before adding that she is particularly surprised that more…
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Armes de dissuasion
Dangereux aussi : pour Denis Robert, l’acharnement judiciaire de Clearstream contre lui a duré dix ans, pour une soixantaine de procès. Aujourd’hui, Bouygues réclame 9 millions d’euros (!) au Canard enchaîné pour avoir révélé en décembre l’ouverture d’une information judiciaire, notamment pour « corruption » et « trafic d’influence » dans le chantier du Pentagone…