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Can Childhood Trauma Shorten Your Life?
Doctors may be overlooking a significant risk factor in disease.
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Defending What’s Mine: A Critique of ‘Prepper’ Philosophy
While it is important to note there has always been a survival culture in the U.S., it is the growing popularity, acceptance, and normalcy that accompany this current movement …
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Sikh Community Fights to Stop Meat Plant Next to Its Temple
Protesters from the Sikh community had filled the City Hall room where the Council was making its vote while more people stood outside with placards objecting to the new …
Youth Can Handle the Truth
This week we want to highlight some of the issues that are spurring youth to get active in their communities and what they are doing about them.
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Climate Protection: The New Insurgency
Faced with the failure of conventional lobbying, the climate protection movement is now turning to mass civil disobedienceu2014but we can take it further still.
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Test Score Driven Education Ignores Students
2014, an election year, offers an opportunity to change the education conversation. The American people are ready for it.
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GOP Refuses to Extend Jobless Benefits
Dale Sexton is one of the more than four million faces of the new American economy: the long-term unemployed, people who have been seeking work for six months or …
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Could Crowd-Sourced Organic Seed Banks Save Our Agricultural Future?
The world's largest democracy has to do more to beat back the dangers of GMOs, and India's organic seed banks might just be the natural weapon required to defeat …
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Undercover COP
Another year comes and goes and the media again ignores the inaction of the UN Climate Change Conference, this year beset by protests in Warsaw.
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The Workplace Needs to Adapt to People’s Needs
The conventional way we do business crushes workers' lives and community vitality. The democratic workplace provides an alternative, argues Nyala.