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Updated – Michael Sam: Out of the Closet, Out of the NFL?
While the NFLu2019s first openly gay player, Michael Sam, has been picked up by the Dallas Cowboys, the leagueu2019s teams had shown hesitance to sign the talented defense, supposedly …
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Fast Food Strikes Are Back, Bigger Than Ever
The fast-food strikes are back, and bigger than ever.
Cashing In On Carbon: How Taxpayer Dollars Greenwash Dirty Energy
A supposedly green proposed Texas plant will just burn coal and then sell its emissions to allow for the extraction of hard to reach oil, which in turn will …
Top Ten Things Congress Should Get Done This Fall (and Beyond)
After a five-week recess, lawmakers return to work on September 8. Congress has a lot on its plate and only a dozen legislative days before the November elections to …
St. Louis Police Shot 16 Before Michael Brown in 2014
Ferguson area police shot 16 people before shooting unarmed teenager Michael Brown. In most cases in which race was known, the victim was black.
The United States Was Welcoming to White European Immigrants, But Not to Peoples of Color
Aviva Chomsky explains how prejudice and the exploitation of inexpensive labor has increasingly shaped immigration law and lives.
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Mass Incarceration Found Guilty
In “Mass Incarceration on Trial,” Jonathan Simon argues that a 2011 Supreme Court decision that will improve overcrowded conditions and neglect in California prisons may also have a positive …
In Our Society, Poor People Are Waste Disposal Units
We need to put a halt to the systems that hide and perpetuate inequality. We need to decouple from an economy of infinite choice, an economy of disposability.
25th Anniversary of President George H.W. Bush’s Infamous Oval Office Speech Escalating “War on Drugs”
On September 5th, 1989 President George H.W. Bush gave a speech from the Oval Office that defined a generation.
UN Treaty Could Enact Global Bankruptcy Process and Stop Predatory Funds
The UN General Assembly votes Tuesday on a convention that could enact a global bankruptcy process and stop predatory hedge funds.