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Op-Ed
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President Obama’s Student Loan Interest Rate Plan: Short Term Gains With No Long Term Solutions
Student debt will soon reach $1 trillion and is becoming the second largest form of consumer debt.
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Drones, Sanctions and the Prison Industrial Complex
Peace activist and anti-drone protester Brian Terrell reports on the struggle of non violent offenders from federal prison.
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“The Rich Don’t Always Win” – But They Usually Do
A new book provides the backstory on how the US achieved - then lost - a real victory of people over the plutocracy.
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Don’t Let Monsanto Kill the Humble but Wholesome Dandelion
Though considered a weed by Round Up and many home/lawn owners in the United States, the dandelion is actually an incredibly nutritious food.
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How Big Business Robs Us With “Externalities“
Profiting off of externalities is at the core the business model for many corporations in America and across the globe, and corporations are profiting off of them big time.
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A Tale of Two Tragedies
Mike Ferner: A more developed sense of national empathy would better each of our lives.
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Authoritarianism Has Quietly Enveloped Every Part of American Life – We Must Fight Back
Privacy, not surveillance, is what must be justified now. We must make sure not to draw the wrong lessons from Boston.
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How Fracking Turns Neighbor Against Neighbor
The mining boom caused by the fracking industry's demand for silica sand has divided residents.
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We Should Not “Balance” Our Constitutional Rights With Security
As Ben Franklin so famously asserted, if we're going to go down the road of compromising our rights for security, we'll deserve - and almost certainly end up - …
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A House Divided: This Time, Between the People and the Corporations
Bryan Henry: Both conservatives and liberals need to rally around the American family to keep the corporate landlords at bay.