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Atlanta as a Sanctuary City: Holding Leaders Accountable for Violence Against Marginalized People
One step the Atlanta can take to meaningfully stand up to Trump and help protect our communities.
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being: Explaining Turbans, Beards and Sikhs to Americans
“Someone wearing a turban was meant someone you could see on the street and ask for help if you need it.”
Oregon County Faces Gas Industry Funding, Lobbyists in Battle to Halt Jordan Cove LNG Project
If passed, Measure 6-162 would block what could become Oregon's top greenhouse gas emitter.
How White Nationalists Are Setting Immigration Policy in Trump’s White House
The Federation for American Immigration Reform has won access to mainstream spaces as the “respectable” face of xenophobia.
Chinese Workers Paid $1 an Hour to Make Ivanka Trump’s Clothes
Workers at a factory in China that makes clothes for the Ivanka Trump clothing line and other labels made roughly $1 an hour.
Louisiana Rape Survivors Could Face Jail if They Don’t Testify
Today in rape culture: a Louisiana district attorney who thinks that traumatized rape victims should be punished for refusing to testify.
One Hundred Days of Deconstruction: Part 3
Across the federal government, Trump is determining the country's fate. The first 100 days of deconstruction set the stage for 1,360 that will follow.
Secret US Military Documents Reveal a Constellation of American Military Bases Across Africa
The US military's footprint on the continent will continue to expand in the years ahead, outpost by outpost and base by base.
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“Superman Is Not Coming”: Erin Brockovich on the Future of Water
“It's hundreds of Flints,” says Erin Brockovich: US water supplies have become repositories for industrial waste.
“It Is Profitable to Let the World Go to Hell”: Will Capitalism Doom the Planet?
Antony Lowenstein examines how the success of modern day capitalism “guarantees unfairness and rewards greed,” threatening society and the planet.