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Gender Counts in the Aftermath of Disaster
Although women typically suffer more during natural disasters, gender policies that specifically focus on helping men when disasters strike are also needed.
Snowed Under: When Keeping Schools Open Puts Low-Income Students Further Behind
New York City's public schools may provide hot lunches, but keeping them open in a snowstorm does no good if students aren't able to attend.
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LAPD Goes to Israel, Falls in Love With Drones and Mass Surveillance
Early this month, eight of the LAPD's highest ranking officers toured Israel's private security firms and drone manufacturers.
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Keystone XL “at a Standstill” After Nebraska Ruling
Local landowners and environmentalists who have long opposed the pipeline project are celebrating the decision.
Violent Protests in Venezuela Fit a Pattern
Venezuela's latest round of violent protests appears to fit a pattern, and represents the tug-and-pull nature of the country's divided opposition.
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Why Amazon’s Collaboration With the CIA Is So Ominous – and Vulnerable
Amazon is hosting a huge computing cloud for the CIA's secrets - a digital place where data for mass surveillance and perpetual war are converging.
A Call to Develop a Worker Cooperative Sector in New York City: How the City Can Create Jobs and Address Inequality at Its Roots
Pioneers in creation of co-op business start-ups met in New York City and exchanged success stories and dreams for their democratic work movement.
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Frances Fox Piven | Extreme Poverty Has Been Used to Divide and Terrify Working People for Centuries
In ‘Imagine Living in a Socialist USA,’ Frances Fox Piven argues that the guarantee of a universal income would facilitate a new economic fairness and stability to a financial …
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Mad DNA
Trying to ‘prove’ the historical foundations of family histories with a DNA test takes Eisa Ulen deep down the rabbit hole into communal histories rarely explored.
The Libyan Bedlam
On Friday, Feb 14, 92 prisoners escaped from their prison in the Libyan town of Zliten.