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FEMA Denies Aid to Housing Co-ops After Sandy
Maybe it's time we overhaul our notion of ownership and “home” just as we're updating our notion of “family.”
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Congressmen Pocan and Ellison Introduce “Right to Vote” Constitutional Amendment
Contrary to popular belief, there is no affirmative right to vote in the US Constitution.
Cracking the Codes: Dr. Shakti Butler on the System of Racial Inequity
How do we talk about race and racism in this country? Not as deeply as we should, according to filmmaker and educator Dr. Shakti Butler.
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Who’s Your Highest-Paid State Employee?
The highest paid state employee in four out of five states is...a sports coach.
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The Wrong Men: How the DHS Failed to Prevent Terrorism
Russia warned the FBI about the Boston bombing mastermind in 2011, but the bureau focused its attention on Occupy Boston protesters, instead.
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Discipline and Punish: The New Unemployment “Reform“
The Clinton-era arguments used to end welfare have been turned on the unemployed twenty years later.
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Feds Falsely Use Specter of Terrorism to Hunt Down Black Liberation Activist
Labeling Assata Shakur a terrorist is the latest attempt by the government to rewrite the history of radical activists.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Labor Is Dealt Two New Blows, and More
In today's On the News segment: Thursday, two separate events illustrated just how extreme the war on labor has become; climate change deniers continue to encourage the destruction of …
Interview on Cyprus Crisis: European Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Financial Capitalism
In this discussion, two scholars show that ‘cosmopolitanism’ goes farther back than early modernity and unveil an ideal far different from neoliberal assumptions that cosmopolitanism is simply mobility and …
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Fracking the Suburbs: An Explosive Combination?
As oil and gas get harder to find, the industry is drilling in suburbia - and the neighbors aren't pleased.