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Human Rights
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Boatloads of Migrants Could Soon Be “Floating Graveyard” on Southeast Asian Waters
This ship and its desperate human cargo symbolizes the plight of a persecuted people, and the harsh migration policies of a handful of Southeast Asian countries.
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Writing History Before It Happens: Nine Surefire Future Headlines From a Bizarre World
There's a certain repetition factor in our increasingly bizarre US-dominated world that lends predictability to the future.
Black Lives Matter’s Patrisse Cullors on Creating a New Economy of Nonviolence
Black Lives Matter's Patrisse Cullors speaks about her violent childhood and the “economy of violence.”
Civil Rights Groups Tell Governor Pence: Don’t Stifle Free Speech
A letter to Pence delivered May 15th argues that passage of SR 74 will stifle free speech by equating criticism of Israeli policies with anti-Semitism.
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US “Original Sin” and the 2016 Presidential Election
The legacy of racial inequality continues to infect US public policy.
Torture, Lies and Denial
We may not be personally responsible for what happened in the past, but we are all responsible for what happens next.
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How US Working Women Are Being Run Over
Women occupy jobs that are excluded from legal protections, making the workers very easy to exploit and underpay.
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Wisconsin’s Grocery Dictators
The last thing food stamp recipients need is rich politicians telling them what they can and can't eat.
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Endless Deferment of Meaning: The Media’s Inequitable Melee of Events and Words
Our media cannot represent the public in any just and logical way because it sustains the imbalances already in place.
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Real Talk on Abortion
Anti-choice state legislatures aren't just closing clinics to stop abortion. They're trying to silence their critics.