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Media Reports That GMO Science Is Settled Are Flat-Out Wrong
US Right to Know is calling on media to accurately report that the science on GMOs is contradictory, unsettled, and has been largely controlled by corporations that profit from …
When a Wildlife Rehab Center Regulates Charter Schools: Inside the Wild World of Charter Regulation
Charter school “authorizers” are charged with making sure schools can be trusted with kids and with public money. Problem is, many lack the tools to do the job.
Hundreds of South Carolina Prisoners Sent to Solitary Confinement Over Facebook
In the South Carolina prison system, accessing Facebook is an offense on par with murder, rape, rioting, escape and hostage-taking.
Congress’ Social Security “Reform” Means Cuts
Congress needs to be constantly reminded: Quit messing with Social Security.
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Will the Millennium Development Goals Hit Their Targets?
In 2015, as the Millennium Development Goals come of age, the qualifier has dropped to simply ambitious.
A “Grand Alliance” to Save Our Public Postal Service
Republicans created the problems with the Postal Service.
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White American’s “Equal Opportunity Anger” Leads to Execution-Style Deaths of Three Muslim Americans
The murders may not be ruled a hate crime, but the killer was surely motivated by more than frustration over a parking space.
Copenhagen Attack Witness Inna Shevchenko Debates Scholar Tariq Ramadan on Religion and Free Speech
The attacks in Copenhagen come a month after the massacre at the Paris offices of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: HSBC May Have Gotten Away With More Crimes Than We Thought, and More
In today's On the News segment: The “too-big-to-jail” banks may have gotten away with even more crimes than we thought; according to billionaire Nick Hanauer, stock buybacks are killing …
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Once White in the US: Raising Black Sons in a White Country
Jane Lazarre offers an intimate, lyrical, post-Ferguson look at what it's meant to her to raise her two black sons in the contemporary United States.