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The Impact and Echoes of the Walmart Discrimination Case
Two years later, it is becoming clear just how much the ruling has reshaped the American legal landscape.
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Supreme Court to Inspect Neutrality Agreements
If the Supreme Court outlaws neutrality agreements, it will give Hyatt and many other employers a reason to renege on unions' hard-won pacts.
Still Chasing Ghosts: A New Genetic Methodology Will Not Find the “Missing Heritability“
If traits such as intelligence are reported to be 50 percent heritable, goes the theory, why have no genes associated with intelligence been identified?
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Sustainable Development Goals After 2015
Reducing the proportion of undernourished people by half until 2015 was one of the Millennium Development Goals that the international community set in 2000. It will not be reached.
Dangerous Addiction to Secrecy
Mutual trust still awaits truth-telling about important facts that defined the relationship between the US and Iran ... and that may require breaking a dangerous addiction to secrecy, says …
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Book Review: Kindness and a “Harsh” Alabama Immigration Law
‘Love Has No Borders’ compiles the faith community's responses to HB 56, including sermons, letters to the editor, public testimony, prayers and blog posts.
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Justice Department Awards Grants for Police Officers in Schools
The DOJ is handing out $44 million to provide 356 school resource officers to 141 cities and counties around the country to make schools ‘safer.’
Argument for One-Year Delay of Health Reform Riddled With Flaws
A one-year delay would be a mortal blow to health reform, with tens of millions of Americans who otherwise would gain coverage instead remaining uninsured, possibly for many years.
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Destabilization of Arctic Sea Ice Would Be “Game Over” for Climate
Many more people - from all across the political spectrum need to join this fight. The disintegration of the Arctic will lead to a devastated earth.
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Senators Angle for Monsanto-Friendly FDA Voluntary GMO Labeling “Guidance“
If the FDA finalizes its guidance on voluntary GMO labeling, where does that leave consumers? Right where they are now. In the dark.