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Noncandidate Spending Increases in State Elections
The Citizens United court case has impact beyond Beltway.
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Lyme Disease Surges North, and Canada Moves Out of Denial
One of the clearest signs of health risks in a warming world has emerged in Canada as it struggles to cope with Lyme disease's migration into North America.
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Venture Capitalists Are Poised to “Disrupt” Everything About the Education Market
Venture capitalists and for-profit firms are salivating over the exploding $788.7 billion market in K-12 education.
Corporations Are Not Going to Save Us From Climate Disruption
The Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture, SEFA and the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative are among many public-private partnerships.
Terrorism Serves the State
Continual attention to non-state terrorism helps justify state power.
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Understanding Our Many Fergusons: Kill Lines – the Will, the Right and the Need to Kill
There is a race war raging in the US that pits the right of African-Americans to have their young people live with dignity against angry white policemen and vigilantes.
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We Need to Listen to the Founders and Stop the Forever War
War without end poses a very real threat to our democracy.
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Anti-Imperial Feminist Musings in Morocco
Though there is nothing new in saying the US is imperial, racist, misogynist, and militarist, we may be in a newer, more vengeful phase of it, with unknown consequences …
Uruguay’s Legalization of Marijuana Makes Sense in a Senseless Drug War
In December of last year, Uruguay became the first country in the world to fully legalize and regulate the cultivation, sale, distribution and use of marijuana.
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Pledges Can Work, But It Will Take International Law to Fight Climate Change
The world must find a way of having a climate treaty without US ratification.