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A Moment of Restorative Justice
While the US criminal justice system offers revenge as its principal method of restitution, families may find better solutions for achieving remorse and true rehabilitation.
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Foodies, Feds and Factory Farms: Why We Need Vegans Now More Than Ever
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has made it quite clear as well that every stage of livestock production contributes to greenhouse gas emissions.
The Affordable Care Act and Part-Time Employment: A Family-Friendly Policy
Involuntary part-time employment been trending downward throughout the recovery, despite the roll-out of the Affordable Care Act.
“Workers Are Constantly on the Edge of the Knife“
Rep. George Miller talks about the inequities associated with just-in-time scheduling, especially problematic for the 7.5 million part-time workers who say they wish to have full-time positions.
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The Invisible Diseases of 9/11
Today, those first responders who managed to survive 9/11 are dying off, and our government is doing very little about it.
Broad Coalition Calls for a New Model of Trade
550+ groups reject fast-track trade promotion authority in letter to Senator Wyden.
K-5 Students Deserve a Quality STEM Education, Not Human Rights Violations
Children around the world deserve a quality education without the fear of being abducted, recruited for and coerced into armed combat.
Valdemar W. Setzer on the Obsolescence of Education
My impression is that education is getting worse, and one of the main causes for this is the use of electronic media.
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Warning to War Supporters
If you want to bomb a country every time an evil group murders people in a gruesome manner, you'll have to bomb a lot of countries including our own.
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How the Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson, Bill Gates and Other Billionaires Are Undermining the US
You can see the urge of the United States' new crop of billionaires to “play god” at our expense and with our lives - to decide for us, ad …