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New York’s Teen Pregnancy Campaign Quietly Gets Made Over, Still Misses the Mark
When the Bloomberg administration unveiled its teen pregnancy prevention campaign last March, it was met with immediate backlash. Critics called for officials to cancel the campaign and issue a …
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Privacy Tools: Mask Your Location
In the course of writing her book, Dragnet Nation, ProPublica reporter Julia Angwin tried various strategies to protect her privacy. In this series of book excerpts she distills her …
Dear White People: Film Tackles Racial Stereotypes on Campus and Being a “Black Face in a White Space”
As colleges across the country, from Harvard to University of Mississippi, continue to witness racism on campus, Amy Goodman looks at a new film that tackles the issue through …
Obama’s “Humane Deportation” Policy Review Lacks Humanity
The US immigration system, in particular the detention and deportation system, does not treat immigrants with humanity, dignity and respect.
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Senator Feinstein’s Oversight
This week, Sen. Dianne Feinstein gave a speech on the Senate floor that Sen. Patrick Leahy described as one of the most important he had ever witnessed.
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Questions Remain About US Border Patrol’s Killing of Teen
At least 21 people have died in confrontations with Border Patrol agents, often out of sight of witnesses or fellow agents, in the past four years.
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The Fold Behind the Knee: Kopenawa and Albert’s “Falling Sky“
Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert's “The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman” is a monument to the authors' lifetime of friendship and collaboration and a searing testimony of …
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A Stillborn Child, a Charge of Murder and the Disputed Case Law on “Fetal Harm“
Rennie Gibbs, a 16 year old in Mississippi when she gave birth to a stillborn child, is facing life in prison for taking cocaine during her pregnancy. Hers is …
Did Wisconsin Cut Women’s Cancer Screening To Avoid Medicaid Expansion?
As of July 1, Wisconsin's well woman program will be restructured, resulting in no more than 10 coordinating agencies and only a handful of providers to cover the entire …
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Armed Angry White Males the New Domestic Terrorists
Today, lynch mobs have been replaced by Zimmermans and Dunns, who feel empowered by Stand Your Ground, believing that juries of their peers will exonerate them of their use …