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The Spanish Left’s Anti-Inequality Plan
Podemos party leader Pablo Iglesias had an impact on political landscape and vows to continue to fight extreme inequality.
Disturbing Details Permeate CIA’s Declassified Torture Documents
Without public support to hold the criminals accountable, the vast rendition and torture network will continue to go unchallenged.
The True Cost of California’s Proposition 47
Getting a law on the books often marks the beginning of the struggle, not the end. The real challenge is implementation.
The Most Important Election of Your Life — Is Not This Year
If and when this new, neo-fascist party fields a charismatic presidential candidate, that will be the most important election of our lives.
The 2020 Census and the Re-Indigenization of America
They tried to bury us, but they did not know we were seeds.
The Torture Mindset of the United States
US domestic torture practices have been globalized and franchised since September 11, 2001.
The War on Weed Is Winding Down — but Will Monsanto Be the Winner?
Skeptics question the sudden push for legalization, which is largely funded by wealthy investors linked to Big Ag and Big Pharma.
What the Trump Happened to the Republicans?
Lance Selfa looks at the victories of Donald Trump — and what they mean about the first party of Corporate America.
Why the First Olympic Refugee Team May Not Be the Last
War, civil unrest, genocide, criminality, famine and disease have led to the voluntary and involuntary migration of far too many people around the globe.
The Centralization of Policing: A Push to Integrate Local Police in Mexico and the US
Mexico's federal police are centralizing in ways that are both similar to and different from what's happening with local policing in the US.