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Slower Pace of Job Growth Continues Into the Fall
The Labor Department reported that the economy added 156,000 jobs in September, somewhat less than most economists had projected.
November Elections Could See One Quarter of Americans Free From Marijuana Prohibition
California, Massachusetts, Arizona, Maine and Nevada will all be asking voters to end prohibition on the recreational consumption of cannabis.
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Trump Should Stop Calling Terrorism a Cancer, and So Should Everybody Else
Calling terrorism a cancer takes it out of the context of the politics, history and power systems that form it.
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It Isn’t Snowden Who Should Be Asking for a Pardon
It is not Snowden but Obama who should be asking for a pardon.
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Why We Are Singing for Water at Standing Rock, in Front of Men With Guns and Surveillance Helicopters
“We were water beings from the beginning. The river was our Grandmother and supplied everything we needed to survive,” writes Linda Hogan.
Is Indigenous People’s Day the Answer?
The United States promotes a culture of historical erasure by highlighting the legacy of Christopher Columbus.
Dahr Jamail | Record Heating of Earth’s Oceans Is Driving Uptick in Hurricanes
Increasingly warm ocean temperatures around the globe are causing record-breaking rainfall events.
Upsetting Billionaires at Standing Rock
The Native Organizers Alliance and tribal leaders are developing strategies to counter the economic elites behind the Dakota Access pipeline.
A Nigerian Superhighway Project Threatens a Critical Rainforest and Its People
Indigenous Ekuri fight to protect ancestral forests amid push for development.
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How “Risk Assessment” Tools Are Condemning People to Indefinite Imprisonment
Risk assessment tools used to evaluate prisoners are no more fair and free of bias than the societies that created them.