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Bernie Sanders Advocates a Free Market in AIDS Drugs
Drugs are cheap. Patent monopolies are expensive. These are simple facts that everyone should know, but for some reason few do. The point here is simple; the vast majority …
A Question of Timing: What America Can Learn From the Revolt in Europe
David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the Annual Meeting 2012 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 26, 2012. (Photo: Moritz Hager / World …
Robots “R” Us: Military-Style Drones Reported on 63 Bases in the US
New York City - It’s easy to understand why presidents, politicians, and the military love robots. They don’t talk back. They follow orders. You press a button and they …
Raza Studies: Inside or Outside of Western Civilization?
The struggle to defend Raza Studies in Tucson, Arizona isn't simply an epic struggle; it is civilizational in scope. While it may sound hyperbolic, such a characterization actually comes …
What Teachers Want
It is difficult to generalize about the opinions of any group as large and diverse as public school teachers, of which there are about 3.2 million. But it can’t …
Sex, Drugs and the Rocky Road of HPV Vaccination
As a sexual health researcher, I have followed the saga of HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccination since the early 2000s. In the past few weeks, three news stories recently caught …
US-Afghan Pact Won’t End War – or Special Operations Forces Night Raids
President Barack Obama walks along the Colonnade of the White House on his way to the Oval Office, May 3, 2012. (Photo: Lawrence Jackson / White House)Washington - The …
May Day: From the Haymarket Massacre to the Occupy Movement
Many people might be surprised to learn that the May Day celebrations that occurred around the world this week were born more than a century ago out of a …
Texas Amnesia
Out of the Southwest in the second half of the 19th century would come half of the United States' total mineral wealth, including gold, copper and oil; the ranching …
Occupied Oakland’s May Daze
Protesters face officers during an Occupy movement march outside City Hall in Oakland, California, on May 1, 2012. (Photo: Jim Wilson / The New York Times) Occupy Oakland talks …