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Widespread Use of Plea Bargains Plays Major Role in Mass Incarceration
Plea bargaining has become historically ubiquitous as the principal, if not primary, method of criminal case disposition in the US.
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Community Organizers Fill a Large Gap in Superstorm Sandy Relief, but It’s Not Enough
Four years after “community organizer” became a slur laced with all the racial venom that Sarah Palin could invoke, it is community organizers who are doing the real relief …
When a Celebrated Activist Turns Out To Be an FBI Informant
It's time for the FBI to come clean about 60s-era manipulation of social movements.
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Women Worse off After Egyptian Revolution
Women have been almost entirely excluded from leadership and decision-making positions since Mubaraku2019s ouster.
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A Day In Court? Maybe Not In America
We Americans tend to think that serious grievances deserve a day in court. Yet here in America u2014 unlike some of our allies u2014 courts have eroded access to …
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Vote Anti-Choice or Your Soul Is in Jeopardy, Bishop Tells Catholics
The Bishop urged parishioners living in the Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin, to vote for candidates who follow the Catholic teachings on life and family issues or risk putting …
Why Republicans Are Turning Their Chainsaws on FEMA
Big storms are the new normal in a world with a changing climate, but instead of improving our emergency systems, the GOP wants to privatize disaster relief and put …
Axe FEMA, Romney Says – as Hurricane Sandy Looms
And it's just a small step from leaving disaster relief up to the states to privatizing it.
Truthout Radio: Our Lead Investigative Reporter Jason Leopold Discusses His Latest Guantanamo Investigation, “Sold Into ‘a Piece of Hell”
Jason Leopold discusses his report, Sold Into a Piece of Hell, about the rendition and detention of Adnan Latif, a Yemeni man who went to Jordan to seek medical …
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When Boston Police Spy on Free Speech, Democracy Suffers
There is evidence that Boston Police officers have worked within the local fusion spying center to monitor the lawful political activity of local peace groups and track their movements …