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Environment
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How Oil Lobbyists Won the Fight to Drill in the Alaskan Wilderness
How oil industry lobbyists played the long game - wearing down an overmatched federal bureaucracy to gain access to a fuel-rich corner of the Alaskan wilderness.
Climate Change 2015: The Latest Science
It has been literally a generation since the world agreed that we needed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to avoid dangerous climate change.
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Food Sovereignty: This Is What Anarchy Looks Like
Democracy allows for the exploitation and destruction of the environment.
Your Festive Meal Could Be More Damaging Than a Long-Haul Flight
We miscalculate environmental risk; eating certain meats is about the worst thing you can do to the planet.
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Breaking Bread in Kabul
Kathy Kelly recalls her time in Kabul, working with young Afghanis learning conflict resolution.
“The Struggle for Land Justice Knows No Borders”: Corporate Pillaging in Haiti
An interview with Nixon Boumba, Democratic Popular Movement and American Jewish World Service.
The Logic of the Police State: Waking Up to the Darkness in US Policing
A look at arguments against reforms reveals disregard for concerns about brutality and abuse.
Hedge Funds vs. Greece: Lobbyists Want “Cheap Ticket” to Speculation
The main global lobby group for hedge funds is trying to tweak the EU's rules so they can have a free play in the future.
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Animal Rights Activists Employ New Tactics to Thwart Hunters
Animal rights activists are employing a new set of tactics to thwart hunters from taking down wolves, bears and other game.
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US Fund to Fight Global Climate Change Is Less Than Annual Payout to a Single For-Profit College
The urgency of curbing the abuses of predatory for-profit colleges comes into sharper focus.