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Think Students Can’t Declare Bankruptcy? Think Again
Bankruptcy is supposed to give debtors a fresh start - unless they're struggling with student loans.
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Take a Valium, Lose Your Kid, Go to Jail
In Alabama, anti-drug fervor and abortion politics have turned a meth-lab law into the country's harshest weapon against pregnant women.
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Campaign for a “Worker Bill of Rights” Puts ALEC in Spokane’s Crosshairs
Activists in Spokane, Washington, are campaigning to place community and workers' rights over corporate rights.
Noam Chomsky on George Orwell, the Suppression of Ideas and the Myth of American Exceptionalism
Chomsky spoke before a sold-out audience of nearly 1,000 people at The New School's John L. Tishman Auditorium in New York City.
Pope Francis in the USA: Calling for Revolution of Tenderness, Pope Touches Down in Richest Nation
Francis will make history, becoming the first pope to address a joint session of Congress.
Court Cites UN Torture Convention to Protect Transgender Immigrants in the US
The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that immigration courts must distinguish between sexual orientation and gender identity in immigrants seeking asylum or relief from deportation.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Tepco Dumped 850 Tons of Radioactive Groundwater Into the Pacific Ocean, and More
In today's On the News segment: Last week, the Tokyo Electric Power Company dumped 850 tons of radioactive groundwater into the Pacific Ocean; this season may see the worst El …
Noam Chomsky on Trump: “We Should Recognize the Other Candidates Are Not That Different”
Noam Chomsky weighed in on US presidential politics in a speech Saturday at The New School in New York.
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Nearly 4,000 People Fighting California’s Fires Are Paid Just $1 an Hour
California offers incarcerated people “volunteer” opportunities.
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Lawsuit Charges Delaware Prison System With Neglect
The lawsuit aims to end what the plaintiffs frame as the DOC's cruel and unusual punishment of those with mental illness.