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Corporate Agricultural Dumping: Growing the Wealth Gap
When agribusiness corporations export food at artificially low prices, they widen the economic divide between the global North and South — and within rural America.
Adding $200 Billion More Won’t Fix Unfixable Senate Health Bill
While $200 billion seems like a lot of money, it's only 17 percent of the bill's $1.2 trillion in cuts.
Death as a Social Privilege? How Aid-in-Dying Laws May Be Revealing a New Health Care Divide
Supporters believe aid-in-dying laws are important for terminal patients because they provide an option to end life on their terms.
Ballot Initiatives and Court Appeals Are Challenging the South’s Felony Disenfranchisement Laws
Florida stands out with one of the nation's most restrictive felony disenfranchisement law.
F-16 and F-35 Bombers Threaten Cognitive Health of Children in Vermont Town
South Burlington families have no vote or representation over the city council that governs health and safety in their neighborhood.
Cleaning Up Toxic Sites Shouldn’t Clear Out the Neighbors
San Francisco has embarked on a project to transform its industrial southeast waterfront into a bike-friendly destination called the Blue Greenway.
Why Health Savings Accounts Are a Bust for the Poor but a Boost for the Privileged
Enrollment in Health Savings Accounts has skyrocketed to nearly 20 million people, but there's a catch.
Trump Rejects His Poll Numbers as “Fake News” — but Even His Voters Are Starting to Notice the Scam
Even voters who bought into Trump's reputation as tough-talking deal-maker are starting to glimpse the truth.
The Troubling Politics of the Texas Supreme Court’s Reversal on Same-Sex Spousal Benefits
The court overturned a lower court ruling guaranteeing benefits to the spouses of gay and lesbian public employees.
How Trump’s Travel Ban Imposes White Supremacist Definitions of Kinship on Muslim Immigrants
Many families of color depend upon the kinship networks that the travel ban does not recognize as bona fide.