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“Somebody Had to Do It First”: The Story of Shirley Chisholm
Barbara Winslow's ‘Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst for Change’ profiles the first black - or woman - presidential candidate, a person who prided herself on being ‘unbossed and unbought.’
Bumper Cars for the Bundestag
If you’ve ever been on a bumper car at an amusement park - and who hasn’t? - you can get an idea of current German politics. Here, too, the …
One Step at a Time: The Gabr Fellows’ Story
In the midst of the confusion and uncertainty that characterizes current US-Egypt relations and with American and Egyptian attitudes toward each other having plummeted to all-time lows, I recently …
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US Commander in Afghanistan Apologizes for Civilian Death, Injuries
The American commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan telephoned Afghan President Hamid Karzai to apologize for an airstrike that killed at least one Afghan civilian and badly wounded two …
Repro Wrap: Your Boss May Get to Veto Your Birth Control and Other News
The Supreme Court has agreed to review complaints over the birth control mandate in the Affordable Care Act, which will allow them to decide whether private corporations have the …
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The Massacre in Marikana: Questions Raised About Role of British Company In South African Mining Massacre
Fifteen months on from the mining massacre in South Africa, executives from British-owned Lonmin have not yet been called to appear before the official commission of inquiry into the …
Is the Pope Getting the Catholics Ready for an Economic Revolution? (Maybe He Read Marx)
Could it be that Pope Francis' new criticism of Capitalism could be the echoes of atheist economic philosopher Karl Marx.
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Tiny Tim Time at Walmart
Shouldn't Sam Walton's heirs at least pony up a pittance from their prodigious inheritance for a few turkey-and-sweet-potato dinners on Thanksgiving?
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Six of the Top Ten US Billionaires Are Kochs and Waltons
The profits of corporate giants that crash our economy and corrupt our politics deserve your outrage. But the efforts to curb them need your creative energy.
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Privatization and the Affordable Care Act
The roots of the Affordable Care Act web site failures may start in the Reagan Administration's fixation with contracting out federal services.