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Relentless Wildfires, Water Scarcity and Marine Die-Offs: Living With Climate Disruption
Recent scientific reports reveal that more than half of all marine life has been wiped out since 1970.
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The Unseen Costs of Defunding Planned Parenthood
The defunding of Planned Parenthood could result in higher Medicaid costs for thousands of additional unintended pregnancies.
Guaranteed Basic Income Is Not a Panacea
Many praise a basic income guarantee as a radical solution to poverty. But global inequalities must be taken into account.
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Hitler at Home: How the Nazi PR Machine Duped the World
Through architecture, design and media depictions of his homes, a myth of the private Hitler as peaceable homebody emerged.
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Brazil Needs New Economic Program to Jump-Start Growth and Employment
Austerity is not working in Brazil any more than it has been working in Europe.
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The Slow-Motion Crisis in the Urban US
Millions of residents in poor city neighborhoods live in environments that assault their health on a daily basis.
Dean Baker | Will President Obama Stand Up to the Drug Thugs?
It takes a lot of courage to defy the folks who make tens of billions a year selling drugs.
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How to Censor Yourself Before the Government Even Has a Chance
When so many of us become frightened enough of our own government to do its censoring for it, I'd say that we've all lost.
The Republican Insurgency Against the Judicial Branch
Our country is in the midst of a full-blown “politically-motivated” judicial crisis.
Are We Winning the Drone War?
This formulation implicitly restricts its concern for “winners” to the US But other lives, combatant and noncombatant, also matter.