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Chile’s Student Movement Leads the Way: Progressive Prospects for Michelle Bachelet’s Second Term
This week, the daughter of Chile's Salvador Allende, the socialist president who was assassinated in a 1973 US-backed coup, took office as Senate President alongside Michelle Bachelet, marking a …
Oil Industry Conjures Illusion of Public Support for KXL Using ALEC Politicians
The American Petroleum Institute and other groups have been directing state legislators to make statements in favor of the pipeline.
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Warning Signs: How Pesticides Harm the Young Brain
Pesticides are part of life in the California's Salinas Valley, “America's Salad Bowl.” But a growing body of research suggests their use is linked to various health problems.
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Google for Media? How Big Tech Is Shaping Journalism
We are just entering the era when high-tech companies own, control and actively participate in mainstream media. Is that a good thing?
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The West’s Coming Tragedy of the Commons
John Wesley Powell and FDR warned about the California and Colorado Basin droughts and proposed ecological solutions that Congress ignored. We are beginning to reap the whirlwind.
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Realistic Left Politics in Texas
In Texas and everywhere else, a realistic politics should challenge not only obvious opponents on the right, but untrustworthy allies in the center.
Is the US Becoming a Police State?
Militarized police, sophisticated surveillance, and normal citizens with little say in what goes on. The US has all the trappings of an all-powerful police state.
SIMILARITIES: 1914 and 2014
Poetry by David Krieger on the similarities between the start of World War I and the situation in Ukraine
American Hustle: Ignoring Poverty In the US
This American Hustle allows politicians, the media, and the public to wash their collective hands of actually doing anything except demanding that the lazy poor step up to the …
What If California Spent As Much On Education As It Does On Prisons?
In the state of California it costs roughly seven times more to house one prisoner for a year than it does to send just one child to a college …