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The Prejudicial System
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Seeds of the Future
A handful of farmers and crop scientists are struggling to save the fast diminishing stock of agricultural diversity.
In Ferguson, a Prosecutor Manipulates the Justice System to Prevent Indictment
St. Louis County prosecutor Robert McCulloch helped assure Darren Wilson would never be charged with a crime.
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I Am Undocumented and I Am Unafraid
The following remarks were made by Gustavo Madrigal-Pina responding to harsh Georgia laws criminalizing immigrants and prohibiting “Dreamers.”
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The Inequality Connection
“Inequality worries me a lot, and it would be great if it was bad on the macroeconomics side, too.”
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The Fallacy of Right-Wing Appeals to Race in Criminal Justice Reform
Ferguson and cities across the world took to the streets in continued protest of the police homicide of Mike Brown and a seemingly endless list of mostly young Black …
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How We “Blew It” on Obamacare
No one would have to worry about dealing with a greedy for-profit health insurance company ever again if Democrats had pushed for single payer.
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Revolution Versus the Counterrevolution in the Age of Social Media
Revolutionary organizations probably exist almost everywhere in some form throughout the world. The problem is that they tend to be small, or small relative to other political parties.
43 US Cities to Hold Vigils, Protests Demanding Obama, Congress End “Plan Mexico” Drug War Funding
In Mexico, more than 100,000 people have been murdered and more than 25,000 have been disappeared since the beginning of Plan Merida.
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The Battle for the Media and Meteorology: The Politics of the Thermometer
Although climate change reporting is increasing in publications such as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and The Guardian, major US networks are not increasing their reporting.