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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.
Innovations or Hucksterism? Three Little-Known Infrastructure Privatization Problems
Studies find hype and tax breaks drive private infrastructure projects.
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Citizens Take Monitoring Into Own Hands as Eagle Ford Shale Boom Continues Undaunted
During the last two years Hugh Fitzsimons has watched the fracking boom transform his rural locale into an industry hub.
Hands Off Assata: Protests Can Protect the Revolutionary Fugitive Again
The earlier protest movement for Assata Shakur points the way forward.
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The Trade Agreement Pinatas
Many labor, environmental and consumer groups have stepped up their criticisms of the Obama administration's plans for pushing fast-track trade negotiating authority.