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Pathologizing the Poor Reinforces Stigma While Deterring Advocacy and Public Policy
The poor don't rate a mention in our public consciousness or political campaigns because we are inconvenient and pathologized.
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How a Right-Wing Political Machine Is Dismantling Higher Education in North Carolina
What began as isolated ideological attacks is looking more and more like a wholesale gutting of the state's public colleges.
US Government Clips NSA Wings, but Snooping Is a Global Effort
The USA Freedom Act only applies to US citizens, which means the NSA is still free to gather meta data on citizens of other nations.
Summit Brings Together 25 Indigenous Nations to Strengthen Resistance in Argentina
The government of Argentina refuses to meet indigenous peoples.
What Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Really All About?
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a proposed free trade agreement between the United States and 11 other countries.
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Why Personhood Matters
Voters do not need to be legal sophisticates to know that something is wrong when corporations have more rights than people do.
Small Town Shows Why the TPP Could Be a Disaster for US Workers
My research on and experiences in a small industrial town in Illinois reveals that ‘free trade’ has been a nightmare for most of the American people.
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A Hundred Quiet Ways: Louisiana Legalizes Discrimination
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal issued an executive order in May that legalized discrimination against same-sex couples on the basis of religious belief.
How Bernie Sanders Can Kill the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Sanders voted “no” on fast track, but there's one thing he could do that he hasn't done: He could publish the text of the TPP.
Why We Shouldn’t Look the Other Way on Bush’s Iraq War Crimes
Rumsfeld may be distancing himself, but Bush and Cheney are still remorseless and still guilty.