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European Human Rights Court Exposes Further Complicity in CIA Torture
States must own up to and take action on known torturers.
It Didn’t Have to Be This Way: How Trump Filled the Void
Trump is aftermath; what got us here is the real problem.
Academic Alienation: Freeing Cognitive Labor From the Grip of Capitalism
In the neoliberal university, intellectual labor has largely become inscribed into the machine of knowledge production.
Noam Chomsky: Building Spaces of Resistance
Capitalism atomizes society into individuals who accept the status quo.
Economic Update: Capitalism Makes Few Winners, Many Losers
This week's episode provides updates on Armenia's political uprising, banks' big profits, Harley-Davidson's layoffs and unjust criminal penalties.
As Hundreds of Civil Rights Cases Are Dismissed by Education Department, National Groups Take on DeVos
The department's new complaint guidelines are undermining its own obligation to investigate civil rights violations.
Trump Peddles False Hope to the Terminally Ill With Right to Try Law
At worst, critics say Right to Try is a stealth attempt by libertarian ideologues to undermine patients' rights.
Spygate’s a Big Bust, but Donald Trump Still Hates Jeff Sessions
The Department of Justice had succumbed to pressure to allow the president's henchmen to see some highly classified information about the FBI's use of a confidential informant in the …
Trump’s Gag Rule Is an Effort to Undermine Access to Birth Control
The changes around federal family planning funding offer as good as chance as any to recenter the conversation around reproductive rights.
Trump Supports Another Racist March
Chicago police are a perfect emblem of Trump's America.