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Reports Condemn Health Care and Solitary Confinement in Arizona State Prisons
The American Civil Liberties Union and Prison Law Office released a series of 26 reports alleging extensive problems with the Arizona Department of Corrections' healthcare program and its use …
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Scrambling Birds’ Brains: Could This Toxic Algae Offer Clues to Human Diseases?
A mysterious toxin with no name and no cure lurking in lakes in the South has drilled holes in the brains of the region's birds.
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Code Black: Murder, Mass Incarceration, Militarization and Genocide in Progress
“Instead of lynchings, we now enjoy the spectacle of the fraternal-order-of-police executing blacks and browns as sport.”
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The Nasty, Scary World of Emerging Tick-Borne Disease
Lyme disease is bad enough. But it's just the beginning of a host of odd and ugly diseases ticks transmit, public health officials are finding.
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Destroying a Bridge to Somewhere
Infrastructure is just another big word invented by tax-and-spend liberals.
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What Happened After Cairo? Assessing 20 Years of Work on “Population and Development“
Over the last 20 years, a billion people have moved out of extreme poverty, literacy rates in some of the world's least developed countries are on the rise, life …
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For-Profit Insanity Is Killing Americans
Despite what you might hear on Fox So-Called News, Obamacare really is working.
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Obamacare
State and Local Pension Funds Face a Shortfall Equal to 0.3 Percent of GDP
Turning over the pension plan to insurance companies will almost certainly raise the fees collected by the financial industry.
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A New Way Insurers Are Shifting Costs to the Sick
By charging higher prices for generic drugs that treat certain illness, health insurers may be violating the spirit of the Affordable Care Act, which bans discrimination against those with …