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A New Way Insurers Are Shifting Costs to the Sick
By charging higher prices for generic drugs that treat certain illness, health insurers may be violating the spirit of the Affordable Care Act, which bans discrimination against those with …
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Stanford’s Coal Divestment: Meet Two Students – and One President – Who Made It Happen
The movement to persuade schools to divest from fossil fuels has taken off around the country. Meet a few people who helped make it happen at Stanford.
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Beyond Divestment: Climate-Concerned Philanthropists Pledge to Move Billions to Wind and Solar
As the UN Climate Summit in New York City approaches, efforts to address climate change through money-moving campaigns are growing.
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Anti-Coal Campaigners Continue to Win in the Northwest
Think global, act local.
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Senate GOP Blocks Fair Pay, Continues War on Women
Some things, it seems, never change. Not even in an election year.
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Sea Change: The Ecological Disaster That Nobody Sees
A Global Ocean Commission report says that we must act now to save the earth's wildest and most productive ecosystem.
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Children’s Rights Groups Urge Defense Program to Stop Giving School Cops Military Hardware
Among the military hardware requested by school police were anti-mine vehicles, M-16s, ammo, grenade launchers.
Special Report: Scots in Their Own Words on Independence
The people of Scotland head to the polls on Thursday to vote on whether to get independence from the United Kingdom.
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New Sparks Fly Between CIA, Senate Intelligence Committee
Tensions between the CIA and its congressional overseers erupted anew this week.
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Winnemem Wintu War Dancers: Shasta Dam a “Weapon of Mass Destruction“
The Winnemem Wintu Tribe over the past 10 years has played a key leadership role in the campaign to oppose the peripheral tunnels and the water bond.