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Climate Finance for Farmers Is Key to Averting 1 Billion Hungry
When climate change is added to the food security equation, local solutions become more complex.
Dispatch From Nepal: The Disaster Didn’t End When the Earth Stopped Shaking
The earthquakes that struck Nepal in 2015 are just one ingredient in a toxic brew of suffering.
US Retirement Funds Contribute to Deforestation and Climate Change
As of June 2016, US mutual funds had a net investment of more than $5 billion in palm oil producers.
Trump’s Adviser on Wall Street Regulations Is a Longtime Swamp-Dweller
Trump's transition adviser for financial regulations works for a firm that is emblematic of the Washington revolving door.
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The Rise of Administrator-Led Cheating: A Battle Over School Control in Pasadena and Beyond
Administrator-led cheating has been plaguing public schools around the country since federal policies shifted to put greater significance on standardized testing.
These Professors Make More Than a Thousand Bucks an Hour Peddling Mega-Mergers
The economists are leveraging their academic prestige with secret reports justifying corporate concentration.
It Costs New York City Taxpayers $1 Million a Day to Protect Tax Dodger Donald Trump
The irony is unbearable.
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From the Sioux to the Sault: Standing Rock Spirit Spreads to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
Despite what seems an oil-friendly president-elect and constant threats to treaty rights, tribes will persist.
How Libraries Are Boldly Innovating to Meet the Needs of Changing Communities
The Lafayette Library and Learning Center is one of many libraries around the US and the world that are reshaping themselves — inside and out.
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#NoDAPL Eviction Announced: Will You Keep Fighting With Us?
The Army Corps outlined its plans to remove Water Protectors from their frontline encampment areas on December 5.