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News in Brief: More Black Men Now in Prison System Than Were Enslaved in 1850, and More
More Black Men Now in Prison System Than Were Enslaved in 1850
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Medicare for Beginners
This isn’t a post explaining how Medicare works in detail. It’s a post about why Medicare matters to you.
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Late to the Game, Again
Washington - I'm no sports nut but I've spent enough time at kids' soccer games to understand that it's impossible to score if you're playing on the wrong side …
State of the Dream 2011
The Buying and Selling of the Pentagon (Part II)
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Lax Enforcement Puts California Schools at Risk in Earthquakes
State regulators have routinely failed to enforce California’s landmark earthquake safety law for public schools, allowing children and teachers to occupy buildings with structural flaws and potential safety hazards …
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Two Unreasonable Women
They're back. Actually, they never left, they just laid low while the heat of political anger blew over. They are the schemers and scammers of Wall Street …
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Not Licensed to Kill: America’s Imperious Attitude in Pakistan Is Wearing Thin
There was a truly bizarre and telling paragraph at the end of a Wall Street Journal news report today on Pakistan’s demand that the US bring home hundreds of …
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The Justice Dept. Doesn’t “Legalize” War With Secret Memos Anymore: Now They’re Public
In the good old days of Bybee and Yoo, before we let them get away with it, thereby guaranteeing worse things to come, Justice Department memos “legalizing” the crime …
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Floodlines: Community and Resistance From Katrina to the Jena Six
Parts of the story are familiar. In late August, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. Floodwaters broke the levees in New Orleans and the city was devastated—first by …