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A Tougher Time for Homosexuals: Review of “Robert Duncan in San Francisco“
Michael Rumacker's new memoir, Robert Duncan in San Francisco, provides a harrowing picture of what life was like for a homosexual man in that city before the Castro became …
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Clean-Car Battle Shows How to Fight for Emissions Reduction
The auto campaign provides three key lessons on how to take the next steps to fight climate change.
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Playing Into Assad’s game
The US media has been especially emetic recently in their coverage of the sequester. While cuts to human services, education, health care, and environmental protection are huge, most of …
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Bad Beef, Bad Policy, and a Sad Memory
Conversation in Germany these days, when not about soccer, dealt often with beef which was part horsemeat, high-priced organic “bio” eggs which weren't all they claimed to be or, …
Hugo Chávez, a Threat to US Empire, Dead at 58 (Kevin Zeese interview)
Hugo Chávez was the President of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013. To discuss the legacy of Chavez, I talk with Kevin Zeese, who states that "The …
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Is America “a Racist Country?”
“America is a racist country,” Mychal Denzel Smith wrote earlier this month in an articleat the Nation. Smith called on whites to acknowledge racism's pervasiveness and eliminate it. I …
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Sister Simone: A Eulogy for a Haitian Heroine
On this International Women's Day, we rerun a 2005 piece on one of our greatest heroines, Marie Simone Alexandre. Though she died eight years ago, her life and message …
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State Department Opens Door to Keystone XL Pipeline Approval
Environmental groups are outraged as the State Department announced that the Keystone pipeline is unlikely to have a negative affect on climate change.
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Fracking Waste Could Go to North Carolina Coastal Towns If Ban Is Lifted
Despite longstanding legislation that bans dumping toxins deep underground in North Carolina, oil lobbyists are attempting to overturn the law.
Job Growth Picks Up Steam in February
Employment rates of workers without high school degrees are near pre-recession levels.