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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.
Organic Consumers Association Responds to FDA Push for Voluntary GMO Labeling and Safety Claims
The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) today called on the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to drop its plan to finalize guidance on the voluntary labeling of genetically modified …
Medical Marijuana Dropped from State Budget, Leaving Patients to Suffer
On Saturday, Governor Cuomo, Speaker Sheldon Silver, and Senate Co-Presidents Dean Skelos and Jeffrey Klein announced that they had reach a budget agreement, but the deal excluded the Compassionate …
The Widening Lens: Jonathan Schell and the Fate of the Earth
Tom Engelhardt gives tribute to the late Jonathan Schell, along with an illuminating interview in which Schell speaks of the Vietnam War.
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Beautiful Sunsets (and Sunrises) in Art
While scientists have been telling us about earth's climate in the deep past, and into the distant future, artists on the other hand, have been bearing witness, in the …