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A Little Shout of Joy: Supreme Court Lets Abortion Clinics Reopen, Easing Crisis of Access in Texas
Texas abortion clinics shuttered by a recent court ruling have been allowed to reopen after the US Supreme Court blocked part of an anti-choice law.
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A Red State Privatization Horror Story
For Republicans, privatization is just a business opportunity.
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On World Day of Food, Struggling for Land in Brazil
Food sovereignty is the concept that every people has the right to make decisions about, produce, and consume its own local, healthy, culturally appropriate food.
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Open Letter to Temple University on Disclosure of Funding Sources for Research
While we take no position on the methodology and conclusions of Professor Hakim and Blackstone's study, we are troubled about the lack of transparency and adequate disclosure of the …
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Greed as a Mental Health Disorder
As a psychiatric diagnosis, it could be called the Great Gatsby Syndrome or, better yet, Wealth Accumulation Disorder.
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On October 15, the United Nations Will Fail Haiti Once Again
We have a moral and political obligation to support the struggle for self-determination by the popular classes in Haiti.
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Congress Ignores Obama’s Broad Executive Power Use – Except on Guantanamo
While The Washington Post writes that closing Guantu00e1namo is “potentially the most dramatic use” of President Obama's executive power, it and Congress simultaneously ignore Obama's other dramatic uses of …
In Wisconsin, Dark Money Got a Mining Company What It Wanted
An accidentally released court filing reveals how one company secretly gave money to a nonprofit that helped get favorable mining legislation passed.
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It is Time for the Deporter-in-Chief to Act
The amount of pain and suffering caused by Obama's draconian policy is indescribable.
Duvalier: Dead But Not Gone
Baby Doc may be dead, but Duvalierism is embedded in this upside down Haiti of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their presidential puppet, Michel Martelly.