Truthout
Op-Ed
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It’s Time for Shooter’s Insurance
Anyone who owns a gun should be required to have liability insurance, so if they injure or kill somebody, the victim or the victim's family will receive monetary damages.
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“Cruzing” Past the True Meaning of Citizenship
In this modern age, exclusive and reactionary citizenship is an unenlightened view, causing enormous death and destruction.
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Trickle-Down Administration: Education Reform in a Culture of Distracting Outrage
A pattern of education crisis and outrage has characterized the education reform debate for nearly 150 years.
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On the Outskirts of Crypto City – the Architecture of Surveillance
Mass surveillance has an image problem.
The Syrian War and “Sectarianism“
Sectarian violence should be seen as the result of specific political and economic developments, rather than their cause.
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Higher Hopes for Hemp
The phony justification for banning hemp because someone might secretly grow pot makes even less sense than it did before Colorado and Washington State legalized marijuana.
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The Pacific Trade Pact Is Big, but Is It a Huge Deal?
Paul Krugman explains why he has a hard time finding the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal especially important.
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Gaming the System: The Relevance of The Hunger Games
As The Hunger Games trilogy gains popularity, its themes of class inequality, poverty, class warfare and oppression gain prominence across the globe.
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Memo to Media: Israeli Settlement Expansion Is Not All About the United States
It's the existence of Israel's West Bank settlements at all, not the timing of an announcement about new construction, that should concern the media.
Open Letter to College and University Presidents Re: Global Security 101
Since the onset of the Nuclear Age our powerful technologies, developed by human ingenuity, have put our societies and humanity itself at grave risk.