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How Carbon Is Changing the Price of Everything: An Interview With the Author of “Carbon Shock“
Author Mark Schapiro explains how climate change is affecting the cost of everything, but the wrong people are paying the price.
Did We Really Create ISIS?
It has been alleged in many online circles that Western powers and their allies created ISIS, which a US-led coalition is now battling in Syria. How accurate is this …
“Government, Not Gangsters, Should Control the Drug Market”: But Will That Stop Mass Incarceration?
Will the Global Commission on Drug Policy's recommendations for decriminalization of drug use stem the tide of disproportionate imprisonment of people of color in the US?
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Winged Warnings: Built for Survival, Birds in Trouble From Pole to Pole
Globally, one in eight - more than 1,300 species of birds - are threatened with extinction, and the status of most of those is deteriorating.
East Asia: A Farewell to Arms
With climate change upon us, it's time to bury the hatchet in one of the world's most volatile regions.
“I’m Just a Kid”: Tariq’s Ordeal
Tariq Khdeir came back from Israel alive - but only because his beating was caught on tape and because he was a US citizen.
Story of a War Foretold: Why We’re Fighting ISIS
The West's current military campaign against ISIS is already being used to neuter mass surveillance reforms at home and will likely produce further political destabilization in the region.
Henry A. Giroux | ISIS and the Spectacle of Terrorism: Resisting Mainstream Workstations of Fear
The spectacle of neoliberal terrorism, violence and misery has become one of the major organizing principles of everyday life.
The Obvious Relationship Between Climate and Family Planning – and Why We Don’t Talk About It
Policy makers need to recognize that family-planning policies affect a host of other issues.
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Conflict Keeps Mothers From Health Care Services
Increasing levels of violence across India are taking their toll on women and cutting off access to crucial reproductive health services.