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Op-Ed
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Obama’s Inauguration Sells Out
Getting your ticket punched for a presidential brunch buys you a rich serving of political access.
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How About Gun Control for the Pentagon?
Laura Flanders: If you think American weapons are a problem in the US, look at the damage they're doing abroad.
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Chris Hedges | Will We Adjust to Life on a Finite Planet or Continue Devouring Our Future?
We, like past societies in distress, will retreat into what anthropologists call ‘crisis cults.’
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Why a Woman Should Lead the FCC
The Federal Communications Commission has been around since 1934. And not once has a woman served as chair.
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Invisibility in Django Unchained: Broomhilda in Chains
When we Black women tell our stories, we center ourselves in the American experience.
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Expanding the Realm of the Possible in 2012
In the fight for equality, many obstacles in 2012 have crossed over into the New Year; yet, the fight still continues.
John Brennan vs. a Sixteen-Year-Old
If Obama thinks John Brennan is a good choice to head the CIA and secure America, he should contemplate the tragic deaths of victims like 16-year-old Tariq Aziz, and …
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Hot Enough for You?
We see what looks like disaster looming but don't even talk about it, because the politics of climate change are inconvenient.
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Corporations Spread the Flu
The US is the only developed nation in the entire world that doesn't guarantee paid sick leave to its workers.
The Problem With Charity: Water
No one really knows how many more people have water due to charity: water's well-building efforts. Nor can anyone guarantee that's all that charity: water does.