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Environment
FEMA Denies Aid to Housing Co-ops After Sandy
Maybe it's time we overhaul our notion of ownership and “home” just as we're updating our notion of “family.”
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Fracking the Suburbs: An Explosive Combination?
As oil and gas get harder to find, the industry is drilling in suburbia - and the neighbors aren't pleased.
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Profiling
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A Novel Idea: Asking an Afghan About Afghanistan
Afghanistan's peace is China's economic life-line and America's commodity price recession.
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Hijacked Organic, Limited Local, Faulty Fair Trade
As the food movement is taken over by the mainstream, Mark Engler asks
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Unfolding Repression in the Shadows of the Guatemalan Genocide Trial
Human rights abuses may be eclipsed by the uncertainty and escalating tension surrounding the trial.
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Education Reform in the New Jim Crow Era
What do the war on drugs and market-oriented education reform have in common?
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At Universities, Too, the Rich Grow Richer
New report finds that 35 private university presidents and 4 public university presidents topped $1 million in total earnings during 2011-2012.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Senate Committee Agrees to Cut Over $4 Billion of Food Aid from the Farm Bill, and More
The European Union is going after Big Oil; and more.
Racism and Classism Are Alive and Deadly: US Public Policies Create Environmental Injustice
Racism and classism still permeate the environmental movement and US agricultural policy, fomenting environmental injustice and often defeating the ultimate purposes of the environmental movement, as well as purported …