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David Bacon on How US Policies Fueled the Great Mexican Migration
Noted journalist, author, documentary photographer, and long-time labor organizer David Bacon discussed the issues raised in his provocative and heavily-researched article, “How U.S. Policies Fueled the Great Mexican Migration.” …
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Health Insurers: We’ll Deny Coverage for Pre-Existing Conditions if Health Mandate Is Repealed
Health insurers and supporters of the Obama administration's health-care reform law are currently in the midst of drawing up possible contingency plans in case the Supreme Court overturns the …
Walking While Black: Florida Police Resist Calls to Arrest Shooter of Unarmed Teen, Trayvon Martin
The Justice Department and the FBI have announced they will conduct a criminal probe of the killing of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and the ensuing police investigation that allowed his killer …
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At Heart of Health Law Clash, a 1942 Case of a Farmer’s Wheat
Washington - If the Obama administration persuades the Supreme Court to uphold its health care overhaul law, it will be in large part thanks to a 70-year-old precedent involving an Ohio farmer named Roscoe …
Murder Incorporated: Guns, the NRA and the Politics of Violence on the Mexican Border
Sign on road just before main bridge into Mexico from Brownsville, Texas. (Photo: Mark Karlin)An Iron River of Guns Flows Across the Border A phalanx of US law enforcement …
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Murder Is Not an Anomaly in War
The war in Afghanistan—where the enemy is elusive and rarely seen, where the cultural and linguistic disconnect makes every trip outside the wire a visit to hostile territory, where …
With Larry Summers’ World Bank Bid in Trouble, Mexico Insists on Open Process
Larry Summers speaks at the Annual Meeting 2011 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 29, 2011. (Photo: Sebastian Derungs / World Economic Forum) Early …
Medicare Costs Too Much and They Better Not Cut It
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) joins other House Republicans to tell members of the media about their plan to reform the Congressional budget process in Washington, December 7, 2011. (Photo: …
Ever More and Ever Less: The Unstoppable Legacy of the War on Terror
By now, you’d think we’d be entering the end of the 9/11 era. One war over in the Greater Middle East, another hurtling disastrously to its end, and …
Bribing Israel
The bully came to Washington. The American president told him in no uncertain terms that the United States would not support a military attack on Iran at this moment. …