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How Cities Became the New Unions The $15 minimum wage was just the beginning. Now Seattle is trying to build a whole safety net for workers — and triggering a war with its biggest companies. June 30, 2018 at 03:24AM via Digg https://ift.tt/2lGWV9c

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How The Startup Mentality Failed Kids In San Francisco Huge contributions from tech titans, a STEM-packed curriculum, gadgets everywhere: Willie Brown Middle School was supposed to set the bar. Then it opened. June 28, 2018 at 10:19PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2lEqc4m

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They Played Dominoes Outside Their Apartment For Decades. Then The White People Moved In And Police Started Showing Up "This used to be a bad neighborhood." Two areas of New York City that have recently gentrified have a corresponding high rate of quality-of-life complaints, which sometimes draw the police. June 29, 2018 at 09:07PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2MAXqxg

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Terry Crews And The Discomfort Of Masculine Anxiety The responses to the "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" actor's personal testimony in DC in support of a sexual-assault bill reveal the persistence of narrow definitions of manhood. June 29, 2018 at 08:12PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2IDg70C

Protest Isn’t Civil Attacks on incivility are rooted more in preserving the status quo than in addressing ongoing harms and violence. June 28, 2018 at 07:14PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2KdWYbv

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An Architecture Critic Breaks Down The Worst McMansions In Texas Everything is bigger in Texas, including the architectural problems with its McMansions. June 29, 2018 at 01:52PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2Mw28MG

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A baby was treated with a nap and a bottle of formula. His parents received an $18,000 bill. An ER patient can be charged thousands of dollars in "trauma fees" — even if they weren't treated for trauma. June 28, 2018 at 03:10PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2tMHIHh

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Capital Gazette Releases A Paper The Day After Its Office Was Attacked In spite of the tragedy, Gazette reporters were steadfast that they would be publishing the paper as normal on Friday, and they followed through. June 29, 2018 at 11:53AM via Digg https://ift.tt/2KAMt1q

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The DNA Cops Who Make Sure The World's Deadliest Viruses Aren't Rebuilt Ginkgo Bioworks is helping stop a new class of lethal biological weapons from being created. June 28, 2018 at 01:33AM via Digg https://ift.tt/2tInqib

Rejected by A.A. How the 12 Step program and its decades-old philosophy are exacerbating the opioid crisis. June 28, 2018 at 12:32AM via Digg https://ift.tt/2N5QBEL

Walgreens Pharmacist Denies a Woman Medication to End Her Unviable Pregnancy Nicole Arteaga, a first-grade teacher who lives in Peoria, AZ, had a Walgreens pharmacist deny her medication that had been prescribed for a failed pregnancy. Her account of the episode on Facebook prompted calls to boycott the company. June 25, 2018 at 05:55PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2yFYT39

The psychology of why you feel alone even when you’re surrounded by people Despite the world's population creeping upward by around 200,000 people a day, many of us have never felt as alone. June 27, 2018 at 11:00AM via Digg https://ift.tt/2twfhyg

What Happened To The Winner Of McDonald's $1 Million Flexi-Disc Contest? In 1989, a 13-year-old boy in Galax, Virginia thought he'd won the real-life golden ticket. His family suddenly had money — but with it, more problems. June 27, 2018 at 10:07PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2lHuI21

Migrant family separations: States sue Trump administration It is the first legal challenge over family separation from the states, who argue that the president's executive order denies migrant families due process and the right to seek asylum. June 27, 2018 at 12:36AM via Digg https://ift.tt/2N3AeIP

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How To Forgive Your Father My immigrant father was trying to navigate life in a new and scary world. And I was hellbent on making things as difficult as possible. June 26, 2018 at 11:14PM via Digg https://ift.tt/2ItYqk1

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