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How Do You Steal a Dream? Supreme Court hears suit to kill Voting Rights Act
Jim Crow is alive and well — and he has mounted a new attack on the law Martin Luther King dreamed of: the Voting Rights Act. On February 27, …
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The Deadly Misconception of Long Term Isolation of Liquid Toxic Wastes: Deep Underground Injection Wells Don’t Work
In 2011, a Democratic Congressional Investigating Committee determined that 14 leading oil companies used 2500 different toxic fracking liquids. The liquids contained 750 different chemicals, including 270 undisclosed ingredients …
11th Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Fourth Amendment Challenge to Florida’s Suspicionless Drug Testing Program
Today, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Lebron v. Secretary, Florida Department of Children and Families, upheld a preliminary injunction that halted Florida's law requiring drug testing of …
Top US Terrorist Group: The FBI
A careful study of the FBI's own data on terrorism in the United States, reported in Trevor Aaronson's book The Terror Factory, finds one organization leading all others in …
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Three-Quarters of Progressive Caucus Not Taking a Stand Against Cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid
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Disaster Capitalism, Chicago-style
In the Chicago Public School system, disaster is not just a word, its a business strategy.
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Britain Comes Clean on Slave Fortunes
One hundred eighty years after abolishing slavery, the United Kingdom is coming clean about fortunes founded on slave ownership and the slave trade.
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The Banal Militarism of Hollywood
Although America is back to making
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Voting Rights Law Draws Skepticism From Justices
A central provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 may be in peril.
Radical Reading: The Progressive Dr. Seuss
Seuss uses ridicule, satire, wordplay and nonsense words to take aim at bullies and demagogues.