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Culture of Torture
It's got to be rad to own a magazine or newspaper and feel like merely publishing information makes you into Tom Paine.
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The United States Government Actually Really Hates Press Freedom
How can the media serve as a watchdog, speak truth to power, and look out for the public's best interest if journalists and their sources are feeling intimidated by …
5,000,000 Signatures for Nuclear Zero Campaign
Soka Gakkai Youth in Japan gathers 5 million signatures in support of Nuclear Zero.
America’s Military Academies Are Seriously Flawed
Today's US military likes to fancy itself a collection of warriors, but America is not Sparta.
From Rust Belt to Blue Belt: Water, Climate Change and the Reordering of the Urban US
Water tables across America, many of them formed hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago, are being over-pumped to compensate for out of control population growth and droughts …
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Under Fire for Negligence, North Carolina Prisons Chief Seeks New Funding for Mental Health Treatment
The North Carolina prison system has for many years faced criticism for its track record of the mistreatment of people with mental health disorders.
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Let Us Speak! Let Us Speak! Let Us Speak! Voices From Ferguson to Sharpton
Sharpton's assertion that the people from Ferguson would be violent is more consistent with the position of the police than with the people of Ferguson.
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As Hollywood Funds a SOPA Revival Through State Officials, Google (and the Internet) Respond
Google may be the target today, but the real target is the open Internet, which depends on free and uncensored platforms to survive.
Reasonable Wrongness
The American distaste for prepositional clauses leads them to think that in order to arrest someone there has to be “probable cause.”
Cromnibus Pension Provisions Gut 40 Years of Policy, Allow Existing Pensions to Be Slashed
Even if you're retired and vested in a private pension plan, your benefits could be cut under the Kline-Miller amendment.