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The Earthquake That Forced San Francisco Forward: 25 Years After Loma Prieta
From what had been a research study paper, stagnant for years, with no chance of approval, came a new model for housing homeless people in San Francisco.
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Code Black Alert: Slave Patrols Alive and Well Across the US
Using the scientific modality of empiricism, the ability to predict outcomes based upon historic experiences, observations and reality, the murders of Brown, Powell, Myers, Martin, the hundreds and thousands …
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Threat of Ebola Highlights Problems in the US Public Health System
It is likely that Ebola will be contained in the United States, but errors in Texas show we have room for improvement in responding to public health emergencies.
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Did Louisiana Attorney General Caldwell Miss the CDC Memo That Incineration Kills Ebola?
Science be damned when it comes to public health in Louisiana.
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NSA Documents Suggest a Close Working Relationship Between NSA, US Companies
Documents describe “contractual relationships” between NSA and US companies, as well as undercover operatives at some US companies.
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Global Subversion Begets a Question for Ed Snowden
Are covert ops compatible with democracy?
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Major League Baseball Continues to Balk on Player Drug Use: Drugged World Series Stars?
Baseball acts like an ostrich's head in the sand for economic reasons: ratings and revenue.
Dahr Jamail | As Casualties Mount, Scientists Say Global Warming Has Been “Hugely Underestimated“
As the signs of runaway anthropogenic climate disruption continue to escalate, a new study reports that climate change is “worse than we thought” because it is happening "faster than …
Dark Day for Democracy: SCOTUS Allows Racially-Motivated Disenfranchisement of Texas Voters
Despite uncontested findings of purposeful discrimination in the GOP law, strict new Photo ID restrictions allowed to take effect.
Edward Snowden and the Golden Age of Spying: An Interview With Laura Poitras
Director Laura Poitras, like reporter Glenn Greenwald, is now known almost as widely as Edward Snowden himself, for helping facilitate his entry into the world.