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What Are We Waiting For?  

Seven years after toppling a dictator, thousands of Tunisians are back in the streets—this time over IMF-backed austerity, and a sense that not enough has changed since 2011.











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Cannabis Capitalism Takes California  

Starting in January, smoking a joint will become almost as legal as drinking a beer in California. But will regulation of the marijuana industry bring an end to the harms of the drug war?











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Booked: The Ideology of Cheap Stuff  

What do Black Friday, chicken nuggets, and Christopher Columbus tell us about the history of capitalism? We ask Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore, authors of the new book A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things.