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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.
Chicago Cop’s Lawsuit Against Estate of Slain Teen Might Be a First
The lawsuit presents an unusual argument that attempts to make citizens pay for the hazards of policing.
Tyson Foods Accused of Dumping More Poison Into Waterways Than Exxon, Dow and Koch
The animal-slaughter mega-power is the world's biggest processor of chicken, beef and pork.
US Refugee Crisis Raises Grave Human Rights Concerns
Despite having initially proclaimed a surge of refugees into the US a “humanitarian crisis,” President Obama has repeatedly made clear that he does not think Central American children qualified …