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Withholding Water: Cholera, Prejudice and the Right to Water in Haiti
What factors are guiding humanitarian agenciesu2019 decisions to provide or withhold them?
Unemployment Rate Edges Up to 8.2 Percent
Revisions of March and April numbers show much slower pace of job creation than originally reported. The economy added 69,000 jobs in May—short of the 90,000 jobs needed to …
Oklahoma Doctor Refuses to Provide Rape Victim With Emergency Contraception
“An Oklahoma emergency room doctor refused to provide emergency contraception to a 24-year-old female rape victim.”
The Stakes in the Walker Recall
Recalls and impeachments are a remedy of last resort. Most of the time, voters who don't like an incumbent choose to live with the offending politician until the next …
NYC Cops Successfully Enforce Regime of Intimidating Dissidents and Press; Dozens Notice
Roughly two hundred protesters gathered in Washington Square Park with pots, pans, whisks, ladles, and other forms of kitchenware for a nightly protest in solidarity with the students of …
Why You Can Thank Dan Quayle for Twenty Years of Policy That Keeps Americans in the Dark About Their Food
“More than a million people have asked the FDA for mandatory labeling of genetically engineered food, yet we still don't have it.”
Home Defenders League: Underwater Homeowners Mobilize for Political Impact
Citizens band together to
Police Handcuffing Seven-Year-Olds? The Brutality Unleashed on Kids With Disabilities in Our School Systems
There’s a danger looming in schools today that’s putting our nation’s most vulnerable children at risk. Around the country, teachers and administrators are struggling to meet the needs of …
Citizens United Unleashed in Wisconsin Recall
Here is a brief look at the five biggest outside interest groups spending in Wisconsin's 2012 recall.
Dirty No More! Cultural Recuperation and the Case of Southern Italy
The tragic history of cultural cleansing in Southern Italy.