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Widespread Furor Continues Against Komen Foundation
The nation’s leading breast cancer advocacy organization confronted the growing furor Thursday over its decision to largely end its decades-long partnership with Planned Parenthood, with rising dissension in its …
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As the Plutonomy Powers Ahead, the “Realonomy” Remains in Recession
(Photo: Nic McPhee / Flickr) America's longest recession since World War II officially ended in June 2009. Since then, the economy has expanded by almost 6 percent …
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Where the Reality of Abortion Resides: Intimate Wars
When I first opened a clinic for women's abortion care in Flushing, New York in 1971, women finally had access to safe, legal abortions – even before Roe v. …
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“Gasland” Director Josh Fox Arrested at Congressional Hearing on Natural Gas Fracking
The Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Josh Fox was handcuffed and arrested Wednesday as he attempted to film a congressional hearing on the controversial natural gas drilling technique known as fracking, …
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Billionaire Buddies: Adelsons Join Forces With Koch Brothers to Take Down Obama
In recent years, billionaire oil magnates David and Charles Koch have bankrolled the Tea Party movement, Republican candidates, and efforts to deny the existence global warming. But less noticed …
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Just the Facts: Churches and the Contraceptive Coverage Mandate
Multiple methods of contraception inside a supply closet at a Planned Parenthood clinic of Southern New England in New Haven, Connecticut, February 7, 2011. (Photo: Christopher Capozziello / The …
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With Restrictions Gone, “1 Percenters” Dish Millions, Alter Race for White House
Washington - Forget about the poor, the unemployed and the sinking middle class participating in the democratic process. The race for the presidency is increasingly being bankrolled …
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Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Dempsey Told Israelis US Won’t Join Their War on Iran
Chief of Staff of the Army, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey gives remarks during a ceremony honoring the Military Times 2011 Soldier of the Year. (Photo: The U.S. Army) …
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Clearing Up the Confusion Over “Made in China“
Women at work in the Jinchan textile factory in Shaoxing, China, a major center of textile manufacturing. (Photo: Ryan Pyle / The New York Times). On his …