Truthout
Op-Ed
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When Discussing the Voting Rights Act, Race Can’t be Ignored
We want an informed electorate, and everyone should read it and even carry the small pamphlet around.
The Iraq Retrospective We Deserve
On this 10-year anniversary, that dialogue is needed more than ever if there's to be any hope of limiting wars of aggression in the future.
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Remembering Jancita Eagle Deer
Jancita's story reminds us why the Violence Against Women Act deserves passage.
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Free Market Mythologies and the Future of Public Ownership
In the wake of the most crippling economic downturn in 70 years, free market mythology is reaching its limits.
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Conservatives Benefit From Instant Runoff Voting, Too
We need more voices and more choices in our elections; instant runoff voting (IRV) is used in more than 300 communities across the country, but we need to take …
Stupidest Budget Cuts Ever – or, Why Cutting Contraception Is Not Conservative
The sequester's 86 million dollars in cuts to family planning is especially stupid when we already have the tools to make most unintended pregnancy and abortion obsolete.
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On Heels of Successful Death Penalty Repeal in Maryland, Exonerated Death Row Prisoner, Kirk Bloodsworth, Urges Delaware Senate to Follow Suit
Today, less than a week after Maryland's legislature passed Governor O'Malley's bill to abolish the state's death penalty, Kirk Bloodsworth, exonerated death row prisoner, current advocacy director of Witness …
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Monsanto’s Death Patents
Monsanto is creating a world in which people have to pay the corporation in order to grow or consume food.
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Cyprus…What You Can Learn From Iceland
Hopefully Cyprus will take a page out of the Icelandic playbook, and lock-up the banksters.
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On Black Women Domestic Workers
My presentation last week on the great intellectual and educator Anna Julia Cooper for Women's History Month stimulated some wonderful responses. Among them was a letter from Katherine van …