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Climate Change 2016: The Year the Future Arrived
We have the technologies to prevent dangerous climate change in time frames that matter — will we use them in 2017?
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Is Keeping People of Color From Voting the Key to GOP Electoral Dominance?
Crosscheck is the GOP's Great White Hope Machine, the approaching Death Star of voter suppression.
Trump’s Treasury Pick Excelled at Kicking Elderly People Out of Their Homes
When Steven Mnuchin ran OneWest, the bank aggressively and in some cases, wrongly, foreclosed on elderly homeowners with reverse mortgages.
The Fight to Rein in NSA Surveillance: 2016 in Review
It's been a busy year on a number of fronts as we continue to fight to rein in the National Security Agency's sweeping surveillance of innocent people.
Participatory Budgeting in Action: An Interview With Filmmaker Ines Sommer
Ines Sommer talks about her documentary “Count Me In” on the spread of participatory budgeting in Chicago.
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The Many Possible Meanings of Trump’s Nuclear Tweets
What Trump says today may not apply tomorrow.
Nine LGBTQ Stories Big Media Missed in 2016
Truthout's annual roundup of the most under-covered LGBTQ stories of the year.
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Dahr Jamail | We Have Released a Monster: Previously Frozen Soil Is “Breathing Out” Greenhouse Gases
The climate feedback loop is causing previously frozen soil to respirate more CO2 and methane into the atmosphere.
How Trump Could Overturn Some Obama Regulations
The president and thousands of federal employees are hard at work finalizing last-minute regulations.
Six Flags Great America Not So Great for Foreign Work-Visa Students
For many foreign students, the experience at Six Flags Great America feels more like exploitation.