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Time Spent in Guantánamo Is Time No One Gets Back – Whether Soldier or Prisoner
Time. We can't get it back. When it's gone, it's gone.
The Alliance for Prosperity: Solution to the Central American Migrant Crisis or Déjà Vu?
Analysts are questioning whether a new Washington plan will stop the suffering driving migration from Central America.
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As the Movement for Black Lives Shifts to Policy, Several Options Emerge
DeRay McKesson's entering Baltimore's mayoral race is as much a part of the movement for Black lives as those taking to the streets in Ferguson, Baltimore and elsewhere.
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Corporations Killed Medicine. Here’s How to Take It Back
For most of human history, life-saving drugs were a public good. Now they're only good for shareholders.
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Montana Tribe’s Water Deal Clears Major Senate Milestone
Blackfeet have waited decades to resolve their water claims but Congress is in no hurry.
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Brooklyn Youth Create Jobs (and Community Roots) Through Local Compost Program
This neighborhood made gardens out of vacant lots to tackle gentrification and high youth unemployment.
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Richard D. Wolff | On the Meaning of Capitalism, We Don’t Agree
To understand capitalism today, consider framing the economic system in terms of workplace relationships.
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How the United States’ Two Major Parties Helped Destroy Democracy
Politics, at its barest, is a market characterized by power-and the struggle for how power will be distributed.
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Washington Post’s Food Columnist Goes to Bat for Monsanto – Again
Readers of the Washington Post deserve better.
The Oregon Standoff and the ALEC-Backed Push to Put States in Control of Public Land
The Malheur refuge takeover masks a campaign to transfer federal land to Western states and open it to private developers.