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How Campus Chiefs Ace Executive Excess 101
These haven't been the best of times for the young men and women attending America's colleges and universities. Or for the faculty who teach them.
California Bans “Dark Money” in Elections After Undisclosed Koch Brothers Spending in 2012
Sacramento Bee does a lousy job of helping voters understand why that matters.
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Challenging Christian Hegemony in the United States
By insisting on the importance of understanding Christian hegemony in all of our work, Kivel adds a layer of complexity to our thinking about movement work, particularly the Palestine …
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US Continues to Surreptitiously Supply Arms to Unelected Regime in Egypt
Newly obtained documents reveal the US government has continued to provide significant weapons support for the unelected Egyptian military regime, despite a State Department declaration it would withhold important …
“Fewer! Fewer! Fewer!” A Step Too Far for the Ultra-Right in the Netherlands?
The acceptance of austerity by most political parties and the general drift to the right has produced fertile ground for far right-parties to take root, and raised the danger …
The War on Drugs: Reaching Past the US Prison System to Latin America
Approximately 70 percent of women incarcerated in the Americas are in prison for non-violent micro-trafficking offenses.
California’s Fracking Boom Just Got Busted
Energy officials are cutting their estimate of how much oil can be drawn out of California's massive Monterey Shale formation by 96 percent.
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Collective Punishment: The New Law of the United Kingdom?
The United Kingdom Terrorism Act of 2000 gave courts the power to seize assets used to commit or promote terrorist activities, but was never intended to include the family …
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Justice Stevens and a Bold Vision to Reclaim Our Democracy
In the face of Citizens United and now McCutcheon, to save any semblance of democracy, we must amend the Constitution for the 28th time.
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What Is Idaho Agribusiness Trying to Hide?
Ag-gag laws target animal rights activists' central goal: to expose animal industries to the public and encourage consumers to stop supporting them. The problem is not documentation of this …