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To Be “Nobody” Is to Be Considered Disposable
Marc Lamont Hill lays out the thinking and history that has led to so many people being deemed disposable today in the US.
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The Biggest Story Ever … for a Day
In these perilous times, flavor-of-the-month journalism will never save us.
Infrastructure Is About More Than Roads and Bridges: Inside the Millions of Jobs Campaign
Infrastructure is also about education systems and jobs for those who are struggling, says Bishop Dwayne Royster of PICO.
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Déjà vu All Over Again: Racism, Poverty and Militarism 50 Years Later
What would Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. think of the changes in the US over the past five decades?
Q & A With Jeremy Lent, Author of “The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning”
What is the “patterning instinct?”
New Public Database Reveals Striking Differences in How Guns Are Regulated From State to State
Because of inaction on the part of the federal government, it is up to each individual state to develop its own policies to reduce gun violence.
Nursing Home Workers Win Wage Gains With Credible Strike Threat
The largest nursing-home worker strike in US history.
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Why Even the Private Health Insurance Industry Hates the House Health Bill
Leaders of the private health industry want you to look elsewhere while they help write the Senate version of Trumpcare.
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Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” Residents Push Back Against Industrial Polluters
The company, Adsorbent Solutions, has run an industrial recycling facility in St. Gabriel since 2008.
Congress Pushes Nuclear Energy, but Has No Clear Plan for Radioactive Waste
Expanding government efforts to support the nuclear power industry would only drag us deeper into the nuclear quagmire.