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The Christian Right’s “Religious Freedom” Wants to Elevate Beliefs Above Human Rights – and It’s Working
Sacrosanct religious rights will let conservatives roll back rights for LGBT and women.
Dangerous Combo: Violence in Pregnancy and HIV in South Africa
An estimated one in four South African women experience intimate partner violence in the 12 months leading up to childbirth.
Our Chat With Edward Snowden’s Legal Counsel
On Monday, via teleconference, whistleblower Edward Snowden addressed a crowd at SXSW, the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. His attorney Ben Wizner spoke with Moyers & …
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Honduras: Indigenous Tolupanes Return to Their Territory With IACHR Orders of Protection
Numerous indigenous activists in Honduras have been killed with impunity by gunmen evidently in the pay of large landowners, and in a number of cases there has been evidence …
Planet or Profit?
As the global impacts of anthropomorphic climate disruption continue to intensify, corporations and the global elite continue to plunder our planet, subjecting areas of the planet that already face …
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A Modern Mode of Punishment
Solitary confinement is torture - and it's not benefitting anyone in society. So, why does it continue to be used?
William Blum Discusses America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy
Foreign policy commentator and author William Blum discusses his latest book, “America's Deadliest Export: Democracy, The Truth about US Foreign Policy and Everything Else,” the real threat to US …
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Legacy of Lost Hegemony
Michael Kimmel's new popular recognition of white American male rage, “Angry White Men,” describes the fury of white American men who have been cast out of their dominant roles …
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The Culling of the American Herd
A Harvard/CUNY report that predicted as many as 17,000 Americans may die as a result of some states refusing to expand their Medicaid programs under Obamacare has received little …
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Developed Nations Give Up on Stopping Climate Change, Turn to Mitigating Impact, Largely Abandoning Third World
Inu00a0"Windfall," McKenzie Funk writes about those who would make money off of climate change, acknowledging the droll ironies of a society that can profit from its own self-destruction.