Chile’s center-left president Michelle Bachelet, who took office in March promising to push a progressive platform, introduced new legislation Monday seeking to reform the labor code, boost union power, and reduce the gap between the rich and poor in a nation beset by severe income inequality. "Today we are marking a new milestone, building the...
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Amidst the best-of-2014 lists seeking to brighten a pretty dark year, we should find a place for the barn-burning speech at the National Book Awards by Ursula Le Guin, who accepted an award for decades of Marxist, feminist science fiction by slamming the power of capitalism in the form of Amazon, her own publisher, and writers "letting commodity profiteers sell us like deodorant." Citing hard times ahead, she suggested, "We will need writers who can remember freedom."
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