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Investigation Reveals Slave Labor Conditions in Brazil’s Timber Industry
Generations of workers have been pushed into the trade of logging forests under conditions that align with slave labor practices as defined by Brazilian law.
In Trump’s “Skinny Budget,” Climate Change and Jobs Take Backseat to War and Walls
The preliminary document calls for massive spending reductions in such departments as the EPA while increasing the defense budget.
To Stand With Palau, We Must Stand Against Capitalism
Perhaps the ocean, in its immensity and its intimacy, its vast and delicate diversity, can awaken us, when appeals to lower carbon emissions have not.
The Human Race Has Only 50 Years Left
The environmental crisis is likely to spur increasing conflict ending in nuclear war.
Novel Strategy for Dealing With Toxic Contamination: Do Nothing
At toxic cleanup sites across the country, environmental agencies have allowed groundwater contamination to go untreated and slowly diminish over time.
Nazis Attacked Trans Accommodations; Now Trump Is, Too
The Trump administration's attacks on queer and trans lives echo the Nazis' destruction of Germany's Institute of Sex Research.
For-Profit Colleges Gain Influence in Trump Administration
Since Trump's election, for-profit college stocks have again begun to climb.
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Congress Approves Drug Test Measure That Vilifies Unemployed Workers
Congress has voted to jettison Labor Department regulations that limit who can be drug-tested before collecting unemployment benefits from state governments.
President Blowback: How the Invasion of Iraq Came Home
Despite his denials that he was ever in favor of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Donald Trump is a president made by war.
More Than Mar-a-Lago: Members of All Trump Clubs Could Have Access to the President
People deserve to know who is potentially paying to have the president's ear.