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From Stand-Up to Twitter, a New Generation’s Fresh Take on Storytelling
Today's storytellers show that each of us can be part of something more powerful, diverse, and creative than we might have imagined.
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Two States Beef Up Oil-by-Rail and Pipeline Safety After String of Accidents
Other states that have surging oil-by-rail traffic and pipelines carrying tar sands are expected to consider similar safety requirements.
How Inequality Shapes the American Family
Inequality changes who we are, individually and collectively.
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Drowning in Profits: A Private Equity Firm, a Missing Pool Fence and the Price of a Child’s Death
The most controversial development in America's housing
Cities Fight Obama’s Deportation Machine
Communities are pushing back against “Secure Communities,” a program which has resulted in the deportations of US citizens, political refugees, and people guilty of minor or no offenses.
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Dahr Jamail | Farming for the Future
On the outskirts of Houston, Texas, a small farm that runs a community-supported agriculture operation and offers educational programs, is preparing people for the intensifying impacts of anthropogenic climate …
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Violent and Legal: The Shocking Ways School Kids Are Being Pinned Down, Isolated Against Their Will
Carson Luke, a young boy with autism, shattered bones in his hand and foot after educators grabbed him and tried to shut him into a “scream room.” Kids across …
What Happened in Last Summer’s Oil Train Disaster in Quebec That Killed 47
Details of the events surrounding the July 2013 derailment and explosion of an oil train in Lac Megantic that killed 47 people certainly suggest that no safety regulation can …
Palau Moves to Protect Diminishing Fish Stocks in Face of Global Inaction
The commercial fishing industry depends on ecological destruction and worker brutality in order to produce cheap seafood. The island nation of Palau may have a solution: a moratorium on …
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Dean Baker | The Sharing Economy and the Mystery of the Mystery of Inequality
In a country where rules are enforced or not enforced to benefit the rich and screw the middle class, you will have increasing inequality and a middle class that …