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Election Countdown 2012: Occupy Atlanta Members Demand Georgia Enact Prison Reform, and More
About 40 demonstrators gathered outside the state Capitol in Atlanta on Monday to express support for Georgia prison inmates who have reportedly been on a hunger strike for nearly …
NYPD Overstated Its Counterterrorism Record
A review shows that the figure overstates both the number of serious, developed terrorist plots against New York and exaggerates the NYPD's role in stopping attacks.
Mexico Still Far From Fair Elections
Without knowing what actually happened in 2006, it is perhaps more difficult to understand the widespread skepticism of the Mexican people as to the results of the current election.
After $9 Billion in Losses, JPMorgan Still Wins With Co-Opted Congress, Hobbled Volcker Rule
The Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) current budget of $1.32 billion is dwarfed by the $4 billion to $9 billion JPMorgan Chase may ultimately lose through disastrous gambling on …
Will World Population Day Open the Gates to Coercive Contraception?
But many reproductive health and human rights activists worry that the summit represents a serious backslide to the bad old days of population control when contraception was deployed as …
Conservative Christianity’s Marketing Gimmick to Keep Its Old-Time, Heaven-and-Hell Religion Afloat
LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on tThe Southern Baptist Convention is a force to be reckoned with. As the …
How Scalia Distorts the Framers
In rejecting the Commerce Clause as the constitutional foundation for the Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Courtu2019s right-wing justices distorted Americau2019s founding narrative, including one made-up view attributed to …
Explosive Increase in Mobile Data Requests Means Congress Needs to Act Now on Digital Privacy
The actual number of people swept up in the cell phone surveillance could be ten, twenty or thirty times higher than 1.3 million because many of the law enforcement …
Inequality Rises as Union Numbers Decline
By now, weu2019ve all heard about the growing disparity between rich and poor u2014 and most of us have felt the effects. This chart, posted by Colin Gordon of …
America the Beautiful: A Fire Sale for Foreign Corporations
The trade agreement would give unprecedented political authority and legal protection to foreign corporations.