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Walking While Black: Florida Police Resist Calls to Arrest Shooter of Unarmed Teen, Trayvon Martin
The Justice Department and the FBI have announced they will conduct a criminal probe of the killing of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and the ensuing police investigation that allowed his killer …
Murder Incorporated: Guns, the NRA and the Politics of Violence on the Mexican Border
Sign on road just before main bridge into Mexico from Brownsville, Texas. (Photo: Mark Karlin)An Iron River of Guns Flows Across the Border A phalanx of US law enforcement …
After Six Months, a Look at What Occupy Wall Street Has Accomplished
Since its beginning, Occupy Wall Street and the protests it spawned across the country have faced critics who say it has no goals and wouldn’t achieve any substantial accomplishments. …
Fracking’s Health and Environmental Impacts Greater Than Claimed
The site of a well for a hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” operation. The fracking industry's response to criticisms of its health impacts has been compared to that of the …
With Larry Summers’ World Bank Bid in Trouble, Mexico Insists on Open Process
Larry Summers speaks at the Annual Meeting 2011 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 29, 2011. (Photo: Sebastian Derungs / World Economic Forum) Early …
Medicare Costs Too Much and They Better Not Cut It
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) joins other House Republicans to tell members of the media about their plan to reform the Congressional budget process in Washington, December 7, 2011. (Photo: …
Ever More and Ever Less: The Unstoppable Legacy of the War on Terror
By now, you’d think we’d be entering the end of the 9/11 era. One war over in the Greater Middle East, another hurtling disastrously to its end, and …
Corporate Campaign Spending: They Get What They Pay for
(Photo: 401K) Will corporate spending determine the outcomes of the 2012 elections? Academic research shows that when companies spend money on politics, they earn a significant financial …
America’s Crimes of War
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Marine Maj. Gen. Mark Gurganus, commanding general, NATO Regional Command-South West exit a U.S. Marine V-22 Osprey at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, March 14, …
How the Fundamentalist Mind Compels Conservative Christians to Force Their Beliefs on You
Many evangelicals wear their religion on T-shirts and around their necks and on car bumpers and eye-blacks. They hand out tracts on college campuses and stage revival meetings on …