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On the News With Thom Hartmann: A Possible Nuclear Waste Leak Triggers Alarm, and More
In today's On the News segment: Workers at the Hanford nuclear waste site in Oregon say that the public is being deceived about a “catastrophic” leak; we have shattered …
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Psychologists Who Designed the CIA Torture Program Can Be Sued by Victims, Federal Judge Rules
This is the first time such a case has been allowed to proceed.
Temperatures in 2016 Approach Limit Set at Paris Climate Conference
There is no evidence to lead us to believe that these dramatic planetary warming trends will not continue unabated.
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What Happens When Asylum Seekers Are Too Poor to Make Bail
Some immigrants remain in jail simply because they are too poor to pay their bond.
“Nestlé Is Trying to Break Us”: A Pennsylvania Town Fights Predatory Water Extraction
Pennsylvania residents are fighting Nestle's attempts to construct a water extraction operation in their community — and winning.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Wealthy Americans More Likely to Have Retirement Accounts, and More
Low wages aren't the only reason that the poor are getting poorer and the richer are getting richer.
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How to Educate a Generation of Syrian Refugees? Makeshift Classrooms and the Teacher Next Door
In response to overcrowded public schools in countries neighboring Syria, caravan schools provide refugees with free education to keep them from falling behind.
Democracy Spring and the US Voting Matrix: How Much of the Electoral Process Is Illusory?
Barriers to voting in the U.S. exist as a comprehensive matrix of political disenfranchisement.
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The Commons Collaborative Economy Explodes in Barcelona
2016 is shaping up to be a turning-point year in which the sharing and collaborative economies enter a period of intense self-examination and reinvention.
On the Line With Verizon Strikers
Verizon workers walked off the job and took to the streets April 13, beginning the largest US strike in half a decade.