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It’s Not “All Psychological”: How the Medical Establishment Fails Transgender Patients
For transgender and gender nonconforming people, just going to the doctor means risking mistreatment, misdiagnosis, hostility or aggression.
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Why Turning Post Offices Into Banks Would Be Win-Win
Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants to introduce basic banking services at post offices so that Americans could go to their nearby post office to cash checks and obtain small loans.
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Taking Tailgate Patrol to the Next Level
Jim Hightower: Ohio State University's new armored truck is overkill for the security needed at its football games.
Selling Your Secrets: The Invisible World of Software Backdoors and Bounty Hunters
It's increasingly clear that the online world is, for both government surveillance types and corporate sellers, a new Wild West where anything goes.
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Being the Wolf of Wall Street
The problem with “The Wolf of Wall Street” isn't that the movie encourages viewers to idolize someone like Jordan Belfort. The problem is they already do.
Shocking Facts About America’s For-Profit Prison Industry
When you can get inmate labor for less than a dollar a day, it's hard to see the government's motivation for incarcerating fewer people. And it's all done at …
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William Rivers Pitt | Diary of a Dying Country
Unlike the energy policies that are filling the rivers and the air with poison, drying up the water out West while making the tap water back East flammable, speaking …
Vermont Students, Workers Object to Tuition Dollars Being Used to Fund Poverty Wages
Rising tuition, faculty cuts and non-living wages for workers at Vermont colleges are prompting student labor organizers to ask if tuition dollars should be used to exacerbate inequality.
Massive Coal Ash Spill Chokes North Carolina River as EPA Considers Waste Rules
A ruptured Duke Energy pipe in Eden, North Carolina, caused the release of up to 82,000 tons of toxic coal ash and 27 million gallons of contaminated water into …
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California’s Water Wars: 2014-2030
What happens after California drought, peak oil, climate chaos, economic depression and water privatization finally get to the population of the Golden State?