États-Unis: The End of Public-Employee Unions?
Garrett Epps The Atlantic The Supreme Court has been asked to take a case that could deal a crippling blow to the labor movement.
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Creative Destruction : Is it still possible to survive as an artist in America?
William Giraldi New Republic When everyone is an artist and no one buys art, artists starve. So it goes in America, where the professional dancer’s annual salary can be $15,000… Here’s a paragraph grim enough to wreck your week, a sortie of distressing numbers about the arbiters, facilitators, and creators of culture: Between 2008 and September…
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Les francophones aux Etats-Unis
Servane Haycraft France-Amérique Si les Etats-Unis arrivent loin derrière l’Afrique et le Canada en termes de francophonie, il n’est pas rare d’entendre parler français au détour d’une rue de New York ou à la radio dans un taxi de Miami, de tomber sur une librairie francophone dans le Maine, ou de lire des panneaux de…
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Infographie: The Average American Mall Explained In 6 Charts
Bloomberg Across the U.S., shopping malls have seen better, more lucrative days. Such traditional anchor tenants as Sears and J.C. Penney are hurting, putting entire shopping centers at risk. Consumer habits have changed, and the same people who begged their parents to let them browse Hot Topic and Aeropostale are now cheering on the mall’s demise. Vacancy…
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All of Us Worried, None of Us Angry . Trois livres expliquent pourquoi l’inégalité n’envoie pas les Américains sur les barricades.
Helaine Olen PSmag (…) The great irony of Cooper’s, Levine’s, and Fraser’s books, and of our age, is that the people who suffer most from inequality are the ones who are least likely to do much about it.
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Etats-Unis-Cuba. Le monde au bord de la guerre nucléaire
Dans les archives de Paris-Match — History of US-Cuba relations (Vidéo 0.52)
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Prohibition – Une expérience américaine
Les liens vidéos de cette série signalée dans le Kiosque le 17 janvier 2013 ont été mis à jour. La série sera ajoutée à la bibliographie de l’article du Kiosque Petite histoire de la Mafia et du crime organisé en Amérique États-Unis, 2011, chaque épisode 52mn, ARTE Un documentaire de Ken Burns ( Civil War, Baseball etc.) et de…
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Le flop secret de la Croix rouge américaine
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. In 2012, two massive storms pounded the United States, leaving hundreds of thousands of people homeless, hungry or without power for days and weeks. Americans did what they so often do after disasters. They sent hundreds of millions of dollars to…
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America dumbs down
The U.S. is being overrun by a wave of anti-science, anti-intellectual thinking. Has the most powerful nation on Earth lost its mind? Jonathon Gatehouse Maclean’s (…) If the rise in uninformed opinion was limited to impenetrable subjects that would be one thing, but the scourge seems to be spreading. Everywhere you look these days, America…
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Aux Etats-Unis, les communicants poussent, les journalistes diminuent
Le Nouvel Observateur Selon le tableau ci-dessous, il y avait en 2004 3,2 communicants pour un journaliste, ils sont désormais 4,6, soit, en chiffres bruts, plus de 200 000 communicants contre 43 600 journalistes.