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IMF’s Involvement Fuels Sudan’s Continued Unrest
IMF austerity policies, as well as policies that have supported foreign acquisition of Sudanese agricultural land, have increased poverty and civil unrest in Sudan.
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Privacy Tools: Mask Your Location
In the course of writing her book, Dragnet Nation, ProPublica reporter Julia Angwin tried various strategies to protect her privacy. In this series of book excerpts she distills her …
What Media Should Know About Hobby Lobby and the Fight for Contraceptive Access
Hobby Lobby, a secular, for-profit corporation, plans to wrongly argue before the Supreme Court today that emergency contraception, a form of preventive service like birth control that all health …
Bells Toll in Temple Town as India Braces for 2014 Elections
The world's most populous democracy will go to the polls from April 7 to May 12 to elect the lower House of parliament and ultimately determine the - at …
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Migratory Birds Face Danger From Oil Spill Long After Shipping Channel Will Open
Heavy fuel oil that spilled from a Kirby Inland Marine oil barge after it collided with a cargo ship on March 22, began washing up on Galveston Bay's shoreline …
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Higher Taxes on Higher Incomes
To avoid waste, reduce inequality and maintain some semblance of market efficiency, income taxes should be used to make money as meaningful to a millionaire as it is to …
The My Lai Massacre Just Got Worse
CBS News has an article that shows that President Richard Nixon sought to cover up the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War.
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Direct the Department of Education and Congress to Remove Annual Standardized Testing Mandates of NCLB and RttT
Standardized testing in schools doesn't solve the education achievement gap and hurts schools.
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Redefining Conservatism in the US
Paul Krugman: "Here's a term we really need: Center-Right In Name Only.
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Envy and Jealousy? Gag Me With a Silver Spoon
Try to change your tune, plutocrats. Contrary to your fantasies, we are plagued by reality, not envy.