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Democrat to Offer a “Lifeline” for Single-Payer Healthcare
Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) will soon introduce legislation that would allow states to use federal funds theyu2019re receiving through Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care programs to build a …
How the US Sold Africa to Multinationals
Driving through Ngong Hills, not far from Nairobi, Kenya, the corn on one side of the road is stunted and diseased. The farmer will not harvest a crop this …
Syria Denies Responsibility in Brutal Attack as Protests Erupt
The Syrian government on Sunday rejected claims that it carried out a massacre that killed more than 90 villagers, including at least 32 children, a death toll that has …
The Oligarchy’s Rule of Law: From Russia to Oklahoma
At the end of the 1990s, after the total collapse of the mass-privatization experiment in Boris Yeltinu2019s Russia, some of the more earnest free-market proselytizers tried making sense of …
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In the Flesh: Marriage and the State
After they obtained a marriage license at the Manhattan city clerk's office, Charlie Robin, left, and Al Fischer, right, of St. Louis, are married by the Rev. Robert Hagel, …
Lethal Injection the Latest Chapter in America’s History of Botched Executions
The American correctional system has repeatedly sought to deploy our native ingenuity to devise the ultimate corrective: an engine of death that will dispose of our villains in a …
On Memorial Day Weekend, America Reckons With Torture
If we really want to honor the Americans in uniform who gave their lives fighting for their country, weu2019ll redouble our efforts to make sure weu2019re worthy of their …
Fighting for (and Winning) Rights: An Analysis
those of us who see ourselves as actively fighting for the rights of the Palestinians on the one hand, and the protections of the U.S. Constitution on the other, …
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Why Even “Failed” Activism Succeeds
The beautiful thing about nonviolent activism is that, while risking no harm, it has the potential to do good in ways small and large that ripple out from it …
Has the FBI Launched a War of Entrapment Against the Occupy Movement?
Is the government unleashing the same methods of entrapment against OWS that it has used against left movements and Muslim-Americans?