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Connie Schultz | White Collars Are Feeling the Blue-Collar Woes
When Youngstown, Ohio, factory workers started losing their jobs in the 1980s, labor researcher and advocate John Russo invited local doctors to meet with a stress expert to prepare …
Guns at Starbucks? Pushing the Right to Bear Arms in Public
Gun owners in California have been wearing their handguns in coffee shops and restaurants. The guns are unloaded and legal, but some citizens and police departments are wary. …
EPA Drastically Underestimates Coal Waste Pollution
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has severely underreported the severity of coal ash waste pollution and its threat to human and environmental health throughout the United States, a new …
Netanyahu Derailing Peace Effort Using Heritage Sites
It's the same old tragic story. Just when there is a glimmer of hope that Israel and Palestine might take a step toward peace, the Israeli government swoops in …
Jordan: Where Iraqi Women Are Also Fathers
Amman - Back in Najaf, Iraq, Khayzaran and her family lived in a well-kept house. They had two cars and a small orchard. Her children, two girls and three …
Turning Point: When Soldiers Have Had Enough
Stand up and repeat these words in marching cadence: "I went down to the market Where all the people shop I pulled out my machete And I began to …
Defense Contractors’ Mental Health Neglected
Redding, California - Wade Dill does not figure into the toll of war dead. An exterminator, Dill took a job in Iraq for a company contracted to do pest …
The Myth of Low Military Pay
One great myth in American society is that military personnel are poorly paid. That was true until the 1980s, when a push to improve recruit quality boosted military pay …
Defying Progressives, Obama Revives Nuclear Power
Those who continue to insist that President Obama would implement progressive measures if he only had 60 Senate votes (ignoring that he had this for most of 2009) will …
Sri Lanka: After the “War on Terror“
Just four months ago, the rulers of Sri Lanka were the toast of the “anti-terror” fraternity in the region and the rest of the world. They were supposed to …