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Meet the Jeans-Wearing, Nature-Loving Nuns Who Helped Stop a Kentucky Pipeline
As fewer women enter the convent, what will become of Kentucky's tradition of socially and environmentally engaged religious women?
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Forty Percent of US Electricity Could Come From Rooftop Solar
Integrating rooftop solar shouldn't just be about retrofitting existing homes.
Four Common Tax Confusions
Quick comebacks to the regressive tax rhetoric you hear on the radio and around the dinner table.
The Spirit of Occupy Lives on in France’s Emerging Direct Democracy Movement
Five years after popular uprisings and Occupy-style movements spread around the world, another movement is growing in France.
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Federal Government Finally Forgives Billions in Debt of Students Who’ve Become Disabled
The move comes after an investigation that documented the difficulty for disabled borrowers to get their loans forgiven.
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Shadowy Conference of Nationwide SWAT Teams to Feature Notorious Anti-Muslim Crusader
Designated an extremist by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Ryan Mauro will conduct a training for police.
ALEC Touted “Transparency” in Pushing for the Panama Free Trade Agreement
Bankruptcy helped corporate interest groups sell the US public on free trade.
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Ninety Percent of the World’s Domestic Workers Lack Social Security Protection
Developing countries have the biggest gaps in coverage, but wealthier nations are not immune.
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Young Sanders Fans Pledge Solidarity With Verizon Strikers — Even if It Means Slower Internet
In the run-up to the New York primary, a Verizon workers' strike served as the centerpiece of a Bernie Sanders campaign event.
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What You Need to Know About Tennessee’s New Anti-LGBT Bill
The legislature just passed a “religious freedom” bill that allows counselors to refuse services to patients.