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The War on Women: The Newly Invisible and Undeserving Poor in America
Strangely, the faces of women have disappeared from the debate about cutting food stamps and have been absorbed into abstract “needy families.”
Fifteen Things That We Relearned About the Prison Industrial Complex in 2013
The engine of the prison industrial complex unfortunately kept on chugging in 2013.
The State Policy Network’s Cozy Relationship With Big Tobacco
The State Policy Network, a web of right-wing “think tanks” in every state across the country, has close ties with the tobacco industry.
NAFTA at 20: State of the North American Worker
Twenty years since its passage, NAFTA has displaced workers on both sides of the US-Mexico border, depressed wages, weakened unions and set the terms of the neoliberal global economy.
Archeology and the Atom
Aren't we glad that the people who lived at Idu did not have nuclear power or nuclear weapons?
Will the Real Invasive Species Please Stand Upright?
Dropping cargo meant to kill invasive species will only lead to more environmental predicaments.
Persistently Distinguishing Apples from Apples: Jeremy Hammond and Daniel Ellsberg
How can these opponents distinguish Ellsberg, a hero, from those they seek to vilify for engaging in the same character of activity?
One Hundred KIPP Fifth Graders in a Single Classroom on the Floor for a Week Until They “Earned” Their Desks
KIPP spends a great deal of money promoting its brand of total compliance segregated charter schools as the tough love, no excuses solution for schooling in urban communities disabled …
Honduran Elections Signal Increased Militarism and Resource Extraction
Many are increasingly worried that when Juan Orlando Hernandez takes office, the country will experience further repression of social movements and the increased pillage of indigenous communities' land …
The Geopolitics of Election Approval: The US Response to Honduras and Venezuela
US National Lawyers Guild election overseers compare and contrast presidential elections in Honduras and Venezuela and describe the United States' embrace of the results of the more problematic of …