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When Play Is Criminalized: Racial Disparities in Childhood
Racial disparities in the way children are allowed to play denies many Black kids an important childhood right.
Florida Town Proposes a Ban on Super PACs — What Could Happen?
Not only would the ordinance get big money out of St. Petersburg elections, but it could lead to a legal clash ending super PACs.
One Woman’s 10-Year Fight to Save Her Family From Foreclosure
Sherry Hernandez is the type of fighter you always encounter when society faces a crisis.
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Planned Gas Pipeline Construction on East Coast Puts Climate at Risk
Nineteen pending pipeline projects could increase global warming by more than 2 degrees Celsius.
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Federal “Blue Lives Matter” Legislation Picks Up Steam, Advances Myth That Cops Are Under Threat
The Blue Lives Matter Act and its sister laws are contrary to statistical evidence.
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Sanders Delegates Push DNC to Reform Anti-Democratic Superdelegates
After a divisive afternoon, hours of negotiations bring results.
Coercive Mental Health Legislation Threatens Rights of People With Disabilities
The Murphy Bill uses people with mental illnesses as scapegoats for gun violence while threatening civil liberties.
Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership President Obama’s Vietnam?
“Credibility” is an ill-defined goal, and the quest for it can have very bad outcomes, as we saw in Vietnam.
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Hillary-Kaine: Back to the Center
Clinton's VP choice, Tim Kaine, bends to pressure from Wall Street and the mainstream media.
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The World After Me: Eternal “Wartime” in the US
The fate of lost children, if they become the norm, will be the scandal of the century.