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How the NRA Undermined Congress’ Last Push for Gun Control
As Obama pushes for gun reform across the country, the NRA continues to rally against gun restriction of any kind, just as they did after the VA Tech shooting …
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Five Days Before Latest College Shooting, Texas Legislator Introduced ALEC/NRA Bill to Allow Guns on Campus
Just days before an altercation at the Lone Star College campus in Houston led to gun fire, a bill was passed to allow concealed weapons onto campuses.
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Can a Paradise Be Built in Hell?
Rebecca Solnit: To be passive in the face of disappointment is to ensure that injustice prevails.
Seventy Years of Nuclear Fission, Thousands of Centuries of Nuclear Waste
Without a way to safely store existing nuclear waste, a responsible government cannot continue to permit the manufacture of more.
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Occupy Everyone: Making Revolutionaries, Not a Revolution
When the next crisis hits, perhaps enough people will be
Protecting Press Freedom From the Market: The UK Press After the Leveson Report
An academic researcher says we must protect the press not only from state power, but also from corporate interests - even if the state must be charged to help.
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The Right’s Attack on Roe v. Wade at 40: The Hyde and Helms Legacy
Thousands of women remain without affordable access to reproductive health care.
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We Must Stop the Tyrannical Minority
The majority of us have to do something before the billionaires take over completely.
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Coin or Not, Is There a Plan?
Krugman: If the coin option is off the table, the Treasury Department better have another plan in the works.
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The Radical Power of Ordinariness
As we come upon both the day commemorating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and with Black History Month just around the corner, I imagine (hopefully) that …