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Playing Pieces in Political Football: Bergdahl and Guantanamo Prisoners
The swap of 5 of the
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Will the First Hotel Housekeeper on a City Council Shame Rhode Island Democrats Into Allowing a Just Wage?
The first housekeeper elected to the city council in Providence, Rhode Island may be the voice needed to push local officials to raise the minimum wage of hotel workers.
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California’s Top-Two Primary Eliminates Third-Party Rivals
Under the current electoral system, corporate-funded politics are strangling democracy.
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Report: Charters Creating Two-Tier Education
At the 60-year anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education, separate is still not equal.
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California Turns to Private Prison to Address Overcrowding and Medical Care
California has contracted with a private prison corporation to open a 260-bed women's prison. But will a new prison address the overcrowding and medical neglect facing the state's female …
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Viacrucis: Migrants Step Out of Shadows Into the Streets
US immigration policy, as well as its foreign policy and economic system, has moved much of Central America toward greater violence, poverty and instability.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: President Obama Announces an Order to Help Americans Pay Student Loans, and More
President Obama announced an executive order to help five million Americans pay off their student loans, and more.
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Navy SEAL Commander Behind Bin Laden Killing: Keystone XL Vulnerable to Terrorism
Have real Keystone XL terrorism threats been ignored, while nonviolent activists have been labeled potential ecoterrorists?
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One Year After Closings, How Are Chicago’s Public Schools Now?
For the low-income communities that lost a neighborhood school, the effects are still palpable one year later.
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Dahr Jamail | Will Fracking Cause Our Next Nuclear Disaster?
The idea of storing radioactive nuclear waste inside a hollowed-out salt cavern might look good on paper. But serious problems could result if there is fracking nearby.