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Rachel Maddow | Richard Engel: What is Really Happening in Syria?
Richard Engel, foreign correspondent for NBC news, talks with Rachel Maddow about the balance of power in Syria as he observed it after sneaking into the country from Turkey.
Will World Population Day Open the Gates to Coercive Contraception?
But many reproductive health and human rights activists worry that the summit represents a serious backslide to the bad old days of population control when contraception was deployed as …
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Americans for Prosperity Rally Calls for “Nullifying” Health Care Law (With Help From ALEC)
The evening after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Wisconsin chapter of the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity held a "Hands Off My …
How Scalia Distorts the Framers
In rejecting the Commerce Clause as the constitutional foundation for the Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Courtu2019s right-wing justices distorted Americau2019s founding narrative, including one made-up view attributed to …
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New Study: Fluids From Marcellus Shale Likely Seeping Into Pennsylvania Drinking Water
New research has concluded that salty, mineral-rich fluids deep beneath Pennsylvania's natural gas fields are likely seeping upward thousands of feet into drinking water supplies.
Beyond Nuclear Denial
How a World-Ending Weapon Disappeared From Our Lives, But Not Our World
Oakland Takes On Goldman Sachs
The City of Oakland is currently debating the possibility of terminating a contract it has with the investment bank Goldman Sachs.
Obesity in Asia: American Fast Food is Fare for the Rich
Each time I visit my homeland, Vietnam, I find that many of my relatives have gotten wealthier and progressively fatter, especially their overly pampered children.
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Minor Reform of Health Care Hailed as Major Triumph
The Supreme Court's health care ruling is merely the latest turn in the sad spectacle of American health care reform.