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The NSA Comes Home: Police Departments Conceal Phone Tracking Equipment From Courts
Police departments across the nation are concealing their use of cellphone tracking equipment from local courts.

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Three Things Obama’s New Clemency Initiative Doesn’t Do
Obama's new commutation reforms don't address other problems with presidential clemency.

Corporations Divest Nearly $60 Million From Private Prison Complex
The announcement comes after civil rights activists pressured more than 150 companies for months.

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Despite Community Pleas, Three Chicago Schools Slated for Privatization
The Chicago Board of Education has consistently voted to close schools or turn them over to private management - laying off most of the staff in the process - …

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Revealed: ALEC’s 2014 Attacks on the Environment
An internal tracking document reveals the scope of ALEC's anti-environmental efforts in 2014.

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Scathing Report Finds Rocketship, School Privatization Hurt Poor Kids
A new report by the Economic Policy Institute, documents the effects of both for-profit and non-profit charter schools that are taking over struggling public schools in Milwaukee.

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Is the FCC Poised to Destroy Net Neutrality?
After a January court ruling on net neutrality that raised fears about radical changes to the internet, the FCC is floating new rules that are being attacked as insufficient.

Ivy League Study Says the General Public Has Virtually No Influence on Policy
Benjamin Page says that the analysis he conducted with Martin Giles of public opinion surveys and elite policy preferences of the last 20 years shows economic elites virtually determine …

Evidence for Russian Involvement in East Ukraine Based on Shoddy Journalism
Robert Parry: The Obama administration and Kiev government claimed that Russian soldiers were present at the building occupations, yet it turns out that this was assertion based on photos …

Affirmative Action Ruling Will Further Racial Inequality
Bruce Dixon: The Supreme Court decision furthers institutional advantages of whites under the guise of colorblindness.