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Developers Aren’t Going to Solve the Housing Crisis in San Francisco
The authors deconstruct and refute supply-side myths about how to create affordable housing in San Francisco - or any city - and propose some new approaches to affordable housing.
The Tyrant Jean-Claude Duvalier Is Dead, but His Legacy Still Lives in UN-Occupied Haiti
Jean-Claude Duvalier's death will not change the realities of foreign occupation and meddling in Haiti that continue to bolster much of the authoritarian Duvalier legacy.
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Loon, Interrupted: Chicks Dying, Social Chaos; Is Their Comeback Unraveling?
Often referred to as the “spirit of the North,” the common loon has long been a cultural icon across the Northern United States and Canada.
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Why Are Teach for America and a California Billionaire Investing in a Minnesota School Board Race?
Don Samuels received from several well-heeled national organizations and various people associated with Teach for America, which has been called a “political powerhouse” for its growing influence in policy …
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Applying to College With a Criminal Record
Colleges are staging areas for economic success and personal prosperity. They should not create new barriers to entry.
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Care for Child Refugees
As indigenous peoples flee persecution in Central America, they should be treated as the refugees they are - with a right to asylum in the United States.
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Paul Krugman | Conservatives Revive the Canadian Fantasy
Conservatives have fallen in love with an imaginary Canada, whose history and current reality is nothing like the real place.
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Guatemalan Government, Canadian Mining Industry Responsible for Violent Conflicts
The Guatemalan government is fueling the fires of conflict by failing to consult local communities before awarding mining licences to companies.
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An Appeal From Okinawa to the US Congress
The fact that the governments of Japan and the United States should be committed to a project against the wishes of “most” of the people of Okinawa should in …
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Fed Whistleblower Carmen Segarra, Snowden and the Closing of the Journalistic Mind
Most journalists are afraid to rock the access journalism boat and do real sleuthing.