Truthout
Op-Ed
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Finance in the United States: Promoting Inequality and Waste
The bloated financial sector in the United States is a major engine of inequality sucking money away from poor and middle income households.
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Does the Powerful Paul Ryan Feel Empathy?
It shouldn't be a surprise that a man with as much wealth and power as Paul Ryan would propose a poverty plan that does very little to fight poverty.
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What I Learned Growing Up in the South as a Feminist, and the Problems With Today’s Feminist Movement
Young women turning away from feminism has become a media meme. What's up with that?
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Giving Women a Fair Fight in the US Military
When it comes to women in the military, people don't think twice about exclusion.
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The Darker Side of Sunblock
A chemical that might be safe in its normal-sized form may not be when it goes nano.
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Reform Conservatives’ New Ideas Are the Same Old Ideas
Governing isn't like selling smartphones; the underlying shape of the problems you have to confront changes quite slowly, and the basics of policy debate are quite stable.
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Brown’s Anticonservationist Plan to Re-engineer the SF Bay Delta
The SF Bay Delta watershed, the most micro-managed, over-developed estuary in the United States, now is being subjected to Governor Brown's so-called Bay Delta Conservation Plan, crafted by power …
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To Address Honduran Refugee Crisis at the Border, US Should Stop Financing Repression in Honduras
If the United States wishes to ameliorate the Honduran refugee crisis, it could begin by withdrawing its financial and diplomatic support from Honduras's repressive government.
Call for Action on Climate Change AND Disarmament/Nuclear Abolition
Humanity is at a crossroads, faced with dual threats of climate change and nuclear weapons.
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Goons Guns and Georgia
Grandparents reflect on Georgia gun laws.