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Lawsuit Challenges Radioactive Fracking Waste Facilities in Ohio
Environmentalists say state regulators have allowed Ohio to become fracking's “dumping ground.”
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The Paid Vacation Route to Full Employment
If we can't take steps to increase the demand for labor, we can go the other way and try to reduce the supply.
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Who Will Police the Police?
It's time to bring community policing back to the United States.
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Israeli, West Bank Arabs’ Divergent Lives Revealed in Olive Harvest
The olive harvest reflects the growing disparities between Palestinians who live in the West Bank and their more prosperous brethren who hold Israeli citizenship.
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Justice Department Takes Steps to Reform Grant Program Incentives
The DOJ has made some subtle, but important, changes to its largest grant program, the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant.
Coal’s Black Wind: Pregnant Women in Parts of India Advised to Stay Away
In its bid to industrialize, India relies heavily on energy from coal.
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Obama: Don’t Sell Out the United States’ Women
The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership is bad news for workers and worse news for women.
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With Election Over, First Order of Business Is $450 Billion Corporate Tax Break
The first order of business after the election is to give big tax breaks to the corporations.
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Soy: Industry’s Miracle Bean in Brazil
The industrial cultivation of soy in Brazil results in deforestation and the expulsion of small-scale farmers from their land.
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Our Daily Poison: How Chemicals Have Contaminated the Food Chain
Marie-Monique Robin ferrets out the origins of the modern chemical industry.