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Meet the Right-Wing Christian Companies Trying to Impose Their Values on Their Workers
They absurdly argue that a mandate to provide health coverage - including family planning - violates religious freedom.
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Kentucky Governor Sees Health Law as Chance to Heal an Ailing State
Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear is overseeing a promising rollout of the healthcare law. Defying bitter GOP opposition, he says it's medicine the state needs.
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From Rome, Five Basic Insights on Inequality
In plain yet powerful language, Pope Francis is challenging the givens of our deeply unequal world - and helping inspire resistance to it.
Pentagon Approves Record Sale of Advanced Arms to Countries at War
Congress will decide if deal first struck by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel in April should go through.
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The Right’s Misconstrued Constitution
The Supreme Court will rule on the right of a corporation owned by abortion opponents to assert its freedom of religion on health insurance, trumping a woman's choice of …
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A Year Later, Feds Inch Forward on Fair Housing
There have been several significant developments in fair housing. Here's what's happened.
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Obama Approves Major Border-Crossing Fracked Gas Pipeline Used to Dilute Tar Sands
Although TransCanada's Keystone XL tar sands pipeline has received the lion's share of media attention, another key border-crossing pipeline benefitting tar sands producers was approved on November 19 by …
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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 …