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Op-Ed
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Hands Up! Don’t Shoot! Death and Visibility in Black America
Black “innocence” always has to be proven and depends on attaining a “respectability” defined by white mores and the white gaze.
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What Happened After Cairo? Assessing 20 Years of Work on “Population and Development“
Over the last 20 years, a billion people have moved out of extreme poverty, literacy rates in some of the world's least developed countries are on the rise, life …
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Fixated on the True Meaning of Money
We are living in a time of monetary impotence, where central banks that have tried to reflate economies aren't having much success.
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For-Profit Insanity Is Killing Americans
Despite what you might hear on Fox So-Called News, Obamacare really is working.
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Now, What Climate Action?
Our political leaders won't lead so those who do recognize the dangers and who are serious about climate mitigation must step up to the plate.
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Zionism and the Educational Elites
The Zionists don't have a monopoly anymore on the story of how Israel came to be and Palestine came not to be.
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Our Sacred Maiz Is Our Mother: Indigeneity and Belonging in the Americas
There is a specific message for peoples of the Americas that have been de-Indigenized, disconnected and severed from their traditions, languages and stories.
Did George W. Bush Write Barack Obama’s Speech on ISIS?
The Obama administration funded rebels in Libya with ties to al-Qaeda, bypassed congress and, together with NATO, misused a UN Security Council resolution to destabilize the country.
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In a Warming World We Can’t Keep Depending on the Same Few Crops
Our entire food system is in a precarious state, propped up by a narrow elite range of major crops backed by global research and advocacy.
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Global Drug Report: Don’t Just Decriminalize, Demilitarize
“The drug war is a pretext for the militarization of resource rich areas in Mexico and Central America, as happened with Plan Colombia in Colombia,” said Dawn Paley, author …