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Inside the New York Fed: Secret Recordings and a Culture Clash
A confidential report and a fired examiner's hidden recorder penetrate the cloistered world of Wall Street's top regulator - and its history of deference to banks.
Ten-Day Village Building Convergence Rocks Small Town Sebastopol
A better world is possible.
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Five Arrested at White House in Antiwar Protest
A few dozen proponents of nonviolence demonstrated in front of the White House the morning after US-led airstrikes on targets in Syria.
“What’s Possible,” a New Film for World Leaders on the Urgency of Global Warming
More than 120 world leaders kicked off a one-day UN summit on climate change in New York City by viewing “What's Possible,” a short film on the urgency of …
Without a Truce in Syrian Civil War, US-Led Strikes Threaten More Chaos for World’s Worst Crisis
Pentagon officials are openly acknowledging that the military campaign in Syria and Iraq could take years to succeed.
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The Nasty, Scary World of Emerging Tick-Borne Disease
Lyme disease is bad enough. But it's just the beginning of a host of odd and ugly diseases ticks transmit, public health officials are finding.
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The Fight to Keep Toxic Mining – and the World Bank – Out of El Salvador
Hundreds of protesters recently gathered at the World Bank to shame a gold mining firm's shakedown of one of Central America's poorest countries.
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Stanford Promises Not to Use Google Money for Privacy Research
Stanford's Center for Internet and Society has long received funding from Google, but a filing shows the university recently pledged to only use the money for non-privacy research. Academics …
Syrians in the Golan Heights Stuck Between Sectarian War and Unjust Occupation
Syrians in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights hear the constant shelling of the civil war that divides their community while living through the decades-old Israeli occupation that dominates daily life.
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Meet the Activist Group That’s Making Student Loan Debt Disappear
Initiatives like the Rolling Jubilee are meant to inspire and enlighten by making us question the system of debt.