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Police Can Search Your Phone Without a Warrant
Police officers can't just come into your home and start searching through your belongings without a warrant, but that same protection does not extend to your cellphone, apparently.
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Federal Regulators Finally “Mind the Gap“
Corporations will no doubt flood the public comment period with predictions of doom and gloom should the SEC's ratio disclosure go into effect.
What Will It Take To End the Suffering in Syria?
Americans concerned about the crisis in Syria should consider an insightful quote from an August 31 op-ed by the Brookings Institution's H.A. Hellyer: "Give the people of Syria a …
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Give the Sierra Club Credit for Taking on the US Marine Corps
In this moment in which the public will and a bit of nerve in Congress have made refusing to let a president launch a bunch of missiles into a …
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Rural New York Township Fights FERC-Approved Gas Compressor
FERC has allowed a gas compressor station in Minisink, New Jersey, even though a preferable alternative is 10 miles away.
Student Artists, Activists Aim for Fossil-Free Investment at Washington University
Students at Washington University in St. Louis (Wash U) show connection between climate crisis and global human rights violations through provocative art exhibit and demand change in school investments.
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Uniting to Win: A Review of Chris Crass’ “Toward Collective Liberation“
A new book specifically targets white males to recognize their privilege and help eliminate it.
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Path to Autocracy: Could America Become a Police State?
Security lobbyists, the media and the government itself continue to stoke public fears of another attack on ‘the homeland.’
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Can Football Be Saved?
Even if you're not a sports fan, you've probably heard about the proposed $765 million settlement between the National Football League and 4,500 of its former players who filed …
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Meanwhile at the Pentagon, Fundamentalist Christians Protest a Non-Existent War
Weinstein: "The true purpose of these inveterate religious extremists was to lobby the top brass to officially give free rein to the Christian fundamentalist vultures within our United States …