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The Next Steps for the EPA’s Clean Power Plan
The new carbon-cutting standard gives every state the opportunity to chart its own energy future.
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The Compelling Conclusion About Capitalism That Piketty Resists
The excesses of capitalism are not simply a question of bad management and a political unwillingness to properly regulate it by imposing the right sort of checks and balances, …
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Hate Summer? Just Wait Until Global Warming Really Kicks In
If you think summer is unbearable now, just wait until the end of the century.
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The Dramatic History of American Sex-Ed Films
Although sex-ed films are a major part of our sexual and educational culture, there has been little critical analysis of their content or creation from a pop-culture standpoint.
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Stories Begetting Stories: How Pop Culture Reinforces Abortion Stigma – and Can Help End It
One in three women in the US have an abortion in their lifetimes, while nearly 40 percent of Americans claim they do not know anyone who has had an …
The Carnage of Pollution
US land grant universities - funded by petrochemical companies to maintain the fiction of the safety and usefulness of pesticides - earn small amounts of money at the cost …
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Images of Latin America
Valenzuelau2019s photos are part of u201cUrbes Mutantes,u201d currently on display at the International Center of Photography.
A Radical Historian’s 60th Reunion at Hotchkiss
I thrived in Chicago because I was beginning to do u201chistory from the bottom up.u201d
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The Slow March Back Into Iraq and Toward Disaster
Short of combat troops on the ground in significant numbers, that table on which “all options” are always kept open was visibly moved into Washington's War Room of the …
Failure of Democracy
America's existing social and political system has not responded in a sane manner to a critical call from scientists worldwide.