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Senate to Obama: Drone, Baby, Drone
Five years of Obama drone strikes, at least 2,500 people in their graves, and none of the transparency promised has materialized.
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Six Reasons Why Obama’s Clemency Program for Drug Offenders Doesn’t Change Mass Incarceration One Bit
The Obama administration is talking up the possibility of using presidential clemency powers to release some prisoners, but this is not the beginning of a rollback of America's prison …
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Crain’s Detroit Business Editor Channels Slave Imagery, Says Detroit Needs ‘Permanent Overseer’
Of all the things they've endured, Detroit residents can now add grotesque racial insensivity from a newspaper editor to their list.
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Fast Food Pulls a Fast One
The vast profits this industry pulls in are lining the pockets of its CEOs while many of those who work in the kitchens and behind the counters are struggling …
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Bundy’s Friends Have Become the Kochs’ Useful Idiots
Militia groups think they're protecting a humble rancher from a government land grab, but they're actually helping a few robber barons make a land grab of their own.
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The Stealthy, Ugly Growth of Corporatized Medicine
Obamacare needs to be recognized as a big step forward in a process that was already well underway, which is to convert the practice of medicine from a patient-oriented …
Abe Shinzo and the US-Japan Relationship in a Global Context
Victory for Abe Shinzo and his Liberal Democratic Party in two consecutive general elections opened the way for Japan to move closer to the policies of the United States …
The Politics of Pachamama: Natural Resource Extraction vs. Indigenous Rights and the Environment in Latin America
The environmental and social costs of extraction are still present, but with a different economic vision.
Portland Student Union Plays Key Role in Faculty Union Win
Students often find themselves with little to no substantive representation on campus, and in recent years, many have turned to building student unions.
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The Racists Among Us
Let's not pretend that deadbeat rancher Cliven Bundy and basketball team owner Donald Sterling are the last two racists in America. They have company.