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The Trump Campaign’s Surprising $8.4 Million Expenditure
The Trump campaign filed its latest campaign finance reports last week, and the largest expense — “digital and online advertising” surprised a lot of reporters.
Day Laborers Leader on Right-Wing Hostility: “So Far, We Have Won This Fight“
We recently spoke with Pablo Alvarado, executive director of the Los Angeles-based National Day Laborer Organizing Network.
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The ADHD Epidemic: Smart Drugs and the Control of Bodies and Minds
What is taken for granted in corporate media coverage is a system of test-oriented high stakes educational competition that filters into capitalist competition.
EPA’s Inaction Made Way for Lead Poisoning in Children, Lawsuit Claims
Seven years after promising new standards for assessing lead dust dangers, the federal government hasn't delivered.
Black Women Do Breastfeed, Despite Intense Systemic Barriers in the US
Targeted and systemic support for Black mothers is needed to overcome the racial gap in breastfeeding rates in the US.
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Where Has All the Money for Our Schools Gone?
New government spending data could reveal how tax breaks for big businesses leave K-12 school funding out to dry.
The Political Significance of Being Inconvenienced
Striving for justice in the long term is worth the upset in the present, worth the mess and the noise of trying to figure it all out.
NASA Study Confirms Methane Pollution From Oil and Gas
Last week, NASA released a follow-up study on its 2014 report that exposed a huge methane hotspot looming over the Four Corners.
Flood-Ravaged Gulf Coast Residents Ask President Obama to Cancel Federal Offshore Drilling Lease Auction
Activists delivered a petition protesting the leasing of more of the Gulf of Mexico for oll and gas drilling.
The Making of a Badass Black Feminist: A Conversation With C. Nicole Mason
This interview explores writing to transgress, holding Black pain and joy, and just how a Bad Ass Black Feminist gets made.