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The Story of Atalissa Highlights America’s Long-Term Care Problem
America's health care system neglects people who require long-term care and denies them the opportunity to lead full, rewarding lives.
United Nations: Criminal Sanctions for Drug Use Are “Not Beneficial”
Drug decriminalization rapidly emerging as consensus goal of drug policy, public safety and health stakeholders.
Happy Birthday, Bayard Rustin: Dan Falcone Interviews Walter Naegle, Partner of the Late Bayard Rustin
Naegle was Bayard Rustin's partner from 1977 until Rustin's death in 1987 and he is executor and archivist of the Bayard Rustin Estate.
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Why I Didn’t Make It to Gaza for International Women’s Day
Benjamin: I had no reason to think I'd end up in a jail cell at the Cairo airport and then violently deported.
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Lakota Vow: ‘Dead or in Prison Before We Allow the KXL Pipeline’
President Obama is scheduled to be make a final decision on the pipeline by the middle of 2014.
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A Moral Blind Spot: The Catholic Establishment and the Y-2 Nuclear Protest
The moral obtuseness of the Catholic hierarchy runs deep.
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Mandatory Minimum Gun Laws Steal Lives
We are accustomed to hearing about exorbitant sentencing for drug offenses, but similar sentencing for gun possession is less frequently mentioned.
From Waterboarding to Water Curing: Gitmo Detainee Sues Over Force-Feeding
Military protocols for force-feeding prisoners have been knowingly altered to inflict superfluous suffering.
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How Does Yasiin Bey’s Mathematics Add Up Now?
How have the politics and statistics Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) used in his 1999 song “Mathematics” changed in the 15 years since the song's release?
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The Zombification of the West
The Western world has become tolerant of despotic policies. But will recognition of that passivity's root causes bring much-needed resistance?