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Five Arrested at White House in Antiwar Protest
A few dozen proponents of nonviolence demonstrated in front of the White House the morning after US-led airstrikes on targets in Syria.
Reports Condemn Health Care and Solitary Confinement in Arizona State Prisons
The American Civil Liberties Union and Prison Law Office released a series of 26 reports alleging extensive problems with the Arizona Department of Corrections' healthcare program and its use …
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Scrambling Birds’ Brains: Could This Toxic Algae Offer Clues to Human Diseases?
A mysterious toxin with no name and no cure lurking in lakes in the South has drilled holes in the brains of the region's birds.
Faith and Science, Heart and Brain: An Interview With Katharine Hayhoe
The director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University talks about her climate change research, the politics of mitigating climate change and how she brings Christian values …
Ken Burns Overlooks Secret of FDR’s Success: Power of the People
The real secret to FDR's success, which Ken Burns neglects to include in his documentary, “The Roosevelts,” was growing unrest and the power of protest.
After Koch-Tied Judge Is Reversed, Walker Probe Rests With Conflicted Wisconsin Supreme Court
A federal appellate court has shut down Judge Rudolph Randa's decision halting the criminal probe into Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and allied groups.
Another War, Another Evil: Haven’t We Learned That the Devil Cannot Be Slain?
The public is sold the idea of the need for violence to cure the world's ills, despite our responsibility for creating those ills.
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Four-Day Workweeks: Change for the Better?
Reducing worktimes with no reduction in pay is a perfectly viable economic development strategy.
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Code Black: Murder, Mass Incarceration, Militarization and Genocide in Progress
“Instead of lynchings, we now enjoy the spectacle of the fraternal-order-of-police executing blacks and browns as sport.”
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It’s Time for the US Middle Class to Make a Comeback
It's time to repudiate Reaganomics, so the American middle class can make a comeback.