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“Are You Here to Save Face – or Save Us?”: Brittany Trilford, 17, Addresses World Leaders at Rio+20
On Wednesday, 17-year-old environmental activist Brittany Trilford of Wellington, New Zealand, addressed more than a hundred heads of state at the opening plenary of the Rio+20 U.N. Earth Summit, …
Right-Wing Billionaires Push Israel Agenda in Democratic Party
Despite GOP attacks on Obama's Israel positions, his record of appeasing both Netanyahu's Likud government and the Israel lobby has earned him the support of most American Zionists, and …
Growing National Movement Against “High Stakes” Public School Testing
New York parents and students say testing mania obstructs learning and hands money to private companies.
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Cage Standards
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The Jerry Sandusky Trial and Child Sexual Abuse’s Walking Wounded
Those of us who work to fight crimes against children use the Jerry Sandusky trial as a platform to say that this happens so much more than you would …
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Big Meetings
However boring such exercises might be u2014 and journalists are always desperate for countries to boycott Big Meetings to render them newsworthy u2014 they've produced progress of a certain …
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Bush v. Gore Has Lessons for Us
The biggest mistake Al Gore made was caving on the election in Florida when he didnu2019t have to.
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The Quiet Extermination of Labor Rights From Human Rights
While progressives and labor are arguing, sometimes viciously, over laboru2019s current sorry state, one thing progressives havenu2019t done is serious self-examination on how and where this abandonment of labor …
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Moody’s Cuts Credit Ratings of 15 Big Banks
The credit downgrades could do more damage to their bottom lines and further unsettle equity markets.