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Students Step Up Efforts to Protect Youth Vote
Access to the vote is now in jeopardy for many students and youth due to a slew of changes to state election laws passed in North Carolina, Texas and …
Fast-Food Workers Challenge Stereotypes, Globalize Question of Fairness
In what's become an international movement, fast-food workers are challenging customers to ‘think outside of the self,’ rather than ‘think outside the bun,’ at their pay and working conditions.
Secret $700,000 Donation Has Scott Walker Scrambling to Address “Appearance of Corruption“
The Nature Conservancy argued that the proposed changes to Wisconsin mining regulations would “pose serious risks to the rivers, lakes, wetlands, groundwater and other natural resources.”
Obama’s No-Win War on ISIS
Obama's constant Middle East flip-flops have made it difficult to keep allies.
Greasing the Path to Military Intervention
As the Kurds have learned, oil can instantly heal longstanding rifts.
From Freedom Summer to Black August
At the dawn of mass incarceration, the creators of Black August saw that racism itself was being reinvented or at least being updated through the criminal justice system.
Climate Crisis Connects Us, Climate Justice Requires Unity
What do rigged corporate trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Paris Treaty, an international climate agreement to be signed in 2015, have in common?
The Cost of Raising a Child to 18 Soars to More Than $245,000
Is it any wonder millennials are opting out of parenting?
Employers’ Opposition to Birth Control Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
The religious right is fighting to allow any business or nonprofit that has a religious person at the helm to be declared a religious employer exempt from governmental mandates.
With This Decade’s Climate Policy, Expect More Warming Than if Nothing Was Done at All
Since 1986, we have emitted as much carbon dioxide as we emitted in the prior 236 years, yet climate policy has only become approximately 13 percent more stringent.