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Texas to Shut Down Women’s Health Program if It Includes Planned Parenthood
HHSC Executive Commissioner Kyle Janek says he is confident the state could find providers to fill the gap left by the exclusion of Planned Parenthood,
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Election Countdown 2012: Are the Presidential Candidates Lying About Job Creation?, and More
Mission elapsed time: T + 42 and counting* Abundibot evidently told lies for the mere pleasure of it. Perhaps it was the only pleasure he knew. –Ursula LeGuin, City …
Vanishing Glaciers, Then and Now
These pairs of images show the transformation of glaciers in Switzerland, Canada, Iceland and Greenland since 2006.
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TSA Removes X-Ray Body Scanners From Major Airports
However, the TSA has been replacing them with machines that radiation experts believe are safer.
Big Oil and the US Chamber of Commerce Fight to Keep Foreign Bribery Flourishing
The groups filed a lawsuit alleging that the SEC's new rule violates corporate First Amendment rights.
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Transcending the Wedge Issue That Divides Democracy Activists: To Vote or Not to Vote?
A major strategic problem in focusing on electoral politics is in the overfocus on a battlefield where the elite have such an advantage.
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Florida Okays Execution of Schizophrenic Man in Direct Violation of Supreme Court Ruling
Ferguson was sentenced to death for a 1977 mass murder in Miami Dade, which he committed shortly after the state released him from a mental hospital against the warnings …
Why Process Matters in the Military Commission at Guantanamo Bay
What would a fair process look like, and why does it matter so much?
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Veterans For Peace Illegally Spied on By Boston Police Fusion Center
Veterans for Peace, and non-profit and NGO to which Howard Zinn used to be a member, has had to endure invasive tactics by the Boston Police for years.
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On Anniversary of Hunger Strike Pelican Bay Prisoners in Solitary Confinement See No Change Request Intervention of CA Governor
A year after their hunger strike, prisoners in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) of Pelican Bay State Prison send an open letter to Governor Jerry Brown expressing their frustration …