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Doctors: Climate Change Is Already Making US Kids Sicker
Children are among the most vulnerable to the health impacts of climate change.
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How Scholarship Websites Sell Students’ Information to Colleges and Publishers
The tradeoff, companies say? Those students could win money to pay for college.
Current Regulations Unable to Control Trade in Products From Slave Labor, Expert Says
Kevin Bales talks about the lack of tools available to stop the flow of money from consumers to networks facilitating human rights abuse.
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Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Leads to Diminished College Enrollment
International student enrollment has dropped sharply and undocumented student enrollment has declined under Trump.
Empire Files: The Sikh Experience in the US
People of the Sikh faith, commonly mistaken for both Muslims and Hindus, are frequent targets of bigoted hate crimes.
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Trump’s Draconian Budget Deals a Blow to Appalachia
Rural and poor Americans are among the many victims of Trump's so-called America First budget.
Release of Arctic Methane “May Be Apocalyptic,” Study Warns
The impending release of methane hydrate across the Arctic is not a good sign for life on Earth.
Former Lobbyist With For-Profit Colleges Quits Education Department
A former lobbyist for an association of for-profit colleges resigned from the Department of Education, where he had worked for about a month.
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In Trump Era, a Pattern of Deportation as Retaliation Is Emerging
When Trump launched his presidential campaign, he claimed that undocumented immigrants were fueling a “crime wave.”
Why Jeff Sessions Is Threatening to Crack Down on Marijuana
Prohibition heightens the power of the police, and Sessions seems reluctant to give that up.