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People Power in the Philippines: Reproductive Health Law Upheld
After more than a decade languishing in Congress and another year in the courts, the Philippinesu2019 Reproductive Health Law (RH Law) was declared largely constitutional by the Supreme Court …
South Sudan Facing Famine Crisis
Three million seven hundred thousand people in this nation of 11 million are at severe risk of starvation in South Suddan.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Wealth Gap Today Is as Bad as It Was in the 1920s, and More
Thom Hartmann, The Thom Hartmann Program: In today's On the News segment: those at the very top hold more of the wealth than at any time since 1928, and …
Appeals Court Upholds Olympia Food Co-op’s Boycott of Israeli Goods
Today, the Washington State Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by five members of the Olympia Food Co-op against current and former members of the …
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Climate Change Is Real: Just Ask the World Bank
It's time to put an end to all of the pseudoscience and climate-change denial talk.
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Obamacare: First Fruits for Workers?
If people are upset about the government giving health care money to people who don't deserve it, they are looking in the wrong direction when they look to the …
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White America Is Oblivious to the Truth About Black Poverty
A recent debate between Jonathan Chait and Ta-Nehisi Coates reveals the misconceptions that rule America's understanding of race and poverty.
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Leaders of Teaching Hospitals Have Close Ties to Drug Companies, Study Shows
Pharmaceutical company payments to doctors extend far beyond rank-and-file clinicians and deep into the leadership of America's teaching hospitals.
Wall Street Journal Spins the Facts for Scott Walker Aide
The Wall Street Journal opinion page has a new installment in its campaign against Wisconsin's “John Doe” campaign finance probe, this time in an effort to resuscitate the image …
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The Contraceptive Mandate Finally Leads America Out of the Victorian Era
The Affordable Care Act demonstrates an affirmative, proactive step from government for women's access to reproductive health care, but conservatives are bent on moving backwards.