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Want to Help Nepal Recover From the Quake? Cancel Its Debt
Nepal owes $3.8 billion in debt to foreign lenders and spent $217 million repaying debt in 2013.
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States Are Required to Educate Students Behind Bars, but Here’s What Really Happens
Since age 12, Cadeem Gibbs has struggled to reconcile his desire to learn with his incarceration.
Five Foods We Thought Were Bad for Us, Now Turn Out to Be Good
And four other foods we are still debating.
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Is Russia Headed Towards Nuclear Disarmament?
There is evidence that Russia has been steadily reducing their number of nuclear weapons and complying with the NPT.
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Rapid Rise in Super PACs Dominated by Single Donors
Super PACS that get nearly all of their money from one donor quadrupled their share of overall fund-raising in 2014.
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Making More Enemies Than We Kill? Calculating US Bomb Tonnages Dropped on Laos and Cambodia and Weighing Their Implications
Is there any correlation between bomb tonnage and political blowback?
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Guatemalan Campesinos Embrace Ancestral Farming Practices to Prevent Migration
There is a crisis facing campesinos in rural Guatemala.
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Officially Unofficial: The Evolution of Mexico’s Student Protests
The problem with the official stories of the student demonstrations however, is their lack of truth.
Mothers Sue Over Alleged Retaliation at Karnes Immigrant Family Jail
Asylum-seeking mothers detained at an immigrant family jail in Texas alleged retaliation after their hunger strike.
Scientists Warn of Hormone Impacts From Benzene, Xylene, Other Common Solvents
Researchers warn that benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene may disrupt people's hormone systems.