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Recruitment Abuses Emerge in Immigration Reform Debate
Labor advocates are pushing for rights for migrant workers who are legally, socially and economically marginalized.
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US House Votes Pro-Hemp! (Kinda)
New legislation might finally move the drug biased block of hemp based products.
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Pet Coke Pollutes Air, Water and Land on City’s Riverfront; Detroiters Say No
A growing mountain of waste from Canadian tar sands is invading the Detroit riverfront, putting it citizens in massive danger.
Baffling Budget Numbers: Making Reporters Do Their Jobs
The media routinely fail in their responsibility to report budget numbers in ways that are understandable.
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Alternatives to School Cuts
Massive budget cuts across Chicago have the potential to cripple any chance of equal education in low income areas.
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The Price of Sand
Ellen Cantarow reviews a new documentary exposing hydraulic fracturing's companion industry, frac-sand mining.
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US Death Penalty Enacts Terror, Not Justice
The US death penalty resembles little more than codified state-sponsored terror based on race and class.
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Syria Is Becoming Obama’s Iraq
The Obama administration thinks it has already invested too much military, financial, and diplomatic capital into the Syrian conflict to turn back, and each step forward brings the US …
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Are the Armed Forces a Rape Culture?
The problem of unreported and unprosecuted sexual assaults in the military is notorious.
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For College Grads, Friendly Advice and Tender Warnings
"You must find the balance between the I and the we, between doing good for yourself and doing something for the greater good. For you will find that they …