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Four of the Most Commonly Prescribed Drugs That May Be More Risky Than Big Pharma Is Letting On
The AMA is debating whether direct-to-consumer advertising should be banned.
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Civil Rights Probe Examines Coal Ash Impact on Poor and Communities of Color
Federal civil rights probe seeks to understand why the poor bear so much of a burden for our coal-fired energy waste.
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The Newspaper That Transformed Black America – and the Course of History
How an ambitious migrant came to Chicago and changed history with the power of journalism.
Laura Flanders Discusses Race, Gender and Socialism With Author Zillah Eisenstein
We also see an update from the Damayan Cleaning Cooperative, the first Filipina migrant worker-owned cooperative in the US.
The President Who Will Not Close Guantánamo
In Obama's final year as president, there are still around 100 prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.
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The Brilliance of Using Pillowcases to #GiveRefugeesRest
A human rights campaign to protest Islamophobic rhetoric sent message-scrawled pillowcases to 31 governors who expressed support for refugee bans.
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How We Misunderstand the History of Black Protest
Critique of contemporary protests against police violence are based on a romanticized narrative of the 1960s civil rights protests.
Thoughts on Rojava: An Interview With Janet Biehl
Full of admiration, but not without critique: Janet Biehl shares some of her ideas on the Rojava revolution after her recent visits to the region.
A Dream Remembered? Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Grassroots Civil Rights Movement
Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered one of the most famous speeches of all time. But it nearly didn't happen.
Martin Luther King, Jr. and War
King's words from 1967 have a haunting and piercing relevance for the United States in 2016.