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A Fracking Fortune Gets Political
After Farris and Dan Wilks cashed in their Texas-based gas company a few years ago for more than $3 billion, they became benefactors of religious right, tea party extremists.
Newspaper Comment Sections Become Cordoned-Off Hate Crime Scenes
The unexpected new locations for hate crime scenes in the 21st century appear to be the comments sections of the nation's leading newspapers, where calls to violence have become …
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A Year After Mass Hunger Strike in California Prisons, What’s Changed?
Last July, 30,000 California prisoners went on hunger strike. Some have been released from solitary and correctional authorities continue a review process as a class-action lawsuit by prisoners goes …
Pacific Missile Range Facility: Kauai’s Biggest Bang Is Out of Sight
A look at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai and what the increasing military presence in the Pacific means for Hawaii and the world.
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The Poisoners and Their Accomplices
“Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA” takes up where Rachel Carson left off - and the news is not good.
Giant Corporations, Giant Failures
Despite GM's bankruptcy, US taxpayers permit and indeed subsidize continued operation by the same company bureaucracy.
Predatory Capitalism and the System’s Denial in the Face of Truth
Contemporary capitalism is characterized by a political economy which revolves around finance capital, is based on a savage form of free market fundamentalism.
Boys Will Be Boys: America’s Campus Rape Policy
Ultimately, when it comes to sexual violence, we must push for personal accountability, in the same manner that we do with other criminal offenses.
Repro Wrap: Here Comes the Fall-Out From the Supreme Court’s Reproductive Rights Rulings
It's been a massive seven days when it comes to reproductive rights in the courts.
The Cost of Texas’ “Miracle” Economy, Gag Orders and EPA Interference
Some of the best “Muck Reads” we read this week.