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Art Is Just as Powerful as Protest

Getting people to care and want to learn about things that they don't see as directly impacting their lives can be difficult. Which is why I believe that wrapping points and ideas up in pretty or exciting packages is just as valid a tactic as demonstrating in a public place with a sea of people. Full story

Li'l Thinks

Classism

Fun fact: when you don’t know what you’re talking about, you’re probably talking about class. I’d say half of what seems to be racist and sexist and xenophobic is classist and allowed to be because nobody gets into it, and nobody wants to. Classism in action is often tucked into… Full story

Why Bitcoins Are Just Like Gold

A lot of people have difficulty wrapping their heads around what Bitcoin is or why it even has value, especially as the virtual cryptocurrency continues to scale record heights. How isn't this a Ponzi scheme? A good way to look at it is to compare Bitcoin to gold. Full story

Slayer and Their Original Drummer Are Having a Serious Problem

Dave Lombardo’s problem with the band isn’t personality based; it’s about money. When he complained to the band that he was only paid a small advance for all his 2012 touring, he was told—on Valentine’s Day—not to pack his suitcase for their upcoming tour. Full story

Greg Palast

Hugo Chavez Told Me He Won't Sell Oil to the Kochs

I’ve been tracking a tube of black putrid ooze, a toxic viper slowly slithering 2,000 miles across the belly of America, swallowing all water aquifers, politicians, and reason in its path. It's called the XL Keystone Pipeline. Full story

Ripple, a Peer-to-Peer Financing Network, Could Make Bitcoin Great (or Destroy It)

Until now, one of the main flaws of Bitcoin, the encrypted digital currency, is that it still relies on centralized exchanges. Full story

The New Narco-Cash Laundering World Bank

Holding a tight shot on the unconscionable transgressions of British banking giant HSBC risks blotting out the bigger problem: Systemic interbank money laundering has ruthless drug cartels, notorious despots, and blind-eye banking executives working in a sort of blooden triangle… Full story

Sports Epiphany: It's Just Guys Running Around

A crappy Maryland-Northwestern basketball game last week previewed what awaits the Terps in the Big Ten for 2014. But does it matter? Nah. Sports is just guys running around. Full story

Polishing a Terp: Why Maryland Left the ACC

At a time when football and its megabucks are steering athletics departments nationwide, the ACC has been unsuccessful in its efforts to build a gridiron powerhouse out of a conference whose identity has been tied to men’s basketball and the four North Carolina schools who’ve dom… Full story

Brooklyn Is Not Ready for College Hoops

Barclays Center has more corporate sponsors than basketball fans watching the games that take place there. Somehow Madison Square Garden is still the better venue… how is that possible? Full story