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Reports Condemn Health Care and Solitary Confinement in Arizona State Prisons
The American Civil Liberties Union and Prison Law Office released a series of 26 reports alleging extensive problems with the Arizona Department of Corrections' healthcare program and its use …
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Scrambling Birds’ Brains: Could This Toxic Algae Offer Clues to Human Diseases?
A mysterious toxin with no name and no cure lurking in lakes in the South has drilled holes in the brains of the region's birds.
Faith and Science, Heart and Brain: An Interview With Katharine Hayhoe
The director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University talks about her climate change research, the politics of mitigating climate change and how she brings Christian values …
Ken Burns Overlooks Secret of FDR’s Success: Power of the People
The real secret to FDR's success, which Ken Burns neglects to include in his documentary, “The Roosevelts,” was growing unrest and the power of protest.
After Koch-Tied Judge Is Reversed, Walker Probe Rests With Conflicted Wisconsin Supreme Court
A federal appellate court has shut down Judge Rudolph Randa's decision halting the criminal probe into Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and allied groups.
Another War, Another Evil: Haven’t We Learned That the Devil Cannot Be Slain?
The public is sold the idea of the need for violence to cure the world's ills, despite our responsibility for creating those ills.
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Four-Day Workweeks: Change for the Better?
Reducing worktimes with no reduction in pay is a perfectly viable economic development strategy.
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Code Black: Murder, Mass Incarceration, Militarization and Genocide in Progress
“Instead of lynchings, we now enjoy the spectacle of the fraternal-order-of-police executing blacks and browns as sport.”
Freed After Hunger Strike, Egyptian Journalist in US to Campaign for Jailed Colleagues
Abdullah Elshamy, an Al Jazeera journalist, speaks about his release from an Egyptian prison after his sustained five-month hunger strike.
“What’s Possible,” a New Film for World Leaders on the Urgency of Global Warming
More than 120 world leaders kicked off a one-day UN summit on climate change in New York City by viewing “What's Possible,” a short film on the urgency of …