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US Steps Closer to Racial Healing With a Truth and Reconciliation Commission
South Africa used truth and reconciliation to address its racist history. It's time for the US to do the same.
Still in the Bush Embrace: What Really Stands in the Way of Closing Guantánamo
Guantanamo remains a global symbol of the worst the US has to offer.
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Could a Democratic President End Fracking?
Fracking's serious environmental impacts have made it increasingly unpopular, forcing Democratic candidates to debate its use.
Voting Laws Roundup 2016
Many voters face new restrictions for the first time in a presidential election. We've already seen problems in the primaries.
Dahr Jamail | Six Years Later, Worried Gulf Residents to Hold Online Town Hall on BP Spill Health Impacts
BP's catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 left untold numbers of people sick, and many remain ill.
Free From Jail, Imprisoned by Debt
People in at least 30 states are barred from voting because they're unable to pay their court fines.
Noam Chomsky on Organizing for a Next System
Noam Chomsky discusses his experiences in campus activism and his vision of a just society.
George Monbiot | Neoliberalism: The Ideology at the Root of All Our Problems
Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump — neoliberalism has played its part in them all.
Democrats March Toward Cliff
Obama once called Clinton “likable enough,” but a new poll shows her net-negative has nearly doubled to 24 points.
GOP Presidential Candidate John Kasich Isn’t a Moderate
Haley Swenson and Emily Shaw survey the political career of Republican presidential candidate John Kasich.