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Anti-Fracking Activist Discusses the Connection Between Human Rights and the Environment
Activist Sandra Steingraber: We canu2019t change the scale of the problem, so that means you have to change the scale of your actions.
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Ask a Democrat: On Social Security, Which Side Are You On?
When it comes to the social security debates, it is time to ask our political leaders if they are for or against the best interests of the American people.
The Fed Targets Unemployment With More Money for Banks
Robert Pollin: The Fed breaks ground with unemployment target but pushing more money into banks without requiring more lending won't solve the problem.
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There Is No American Left
Babones argues American politics has swung violently to the right.
Economists’ Statement on Health Care
We are economists who think that the economy should serve people, the planet and the future.
The Bottom Line: Housing
We are economists who think that the economy should serve people, the planet and the future. Four million families have lost their homes to foreclosure in the Great Recession. …
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No Sting: Feds Won’t Go Undercover to Prove Housing Discrimination
Only a scant few of these incidents ever come to the attention of authorities.
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Shooting Is Business, and Business Is Good
William Rivers Pitt: It is the way we exist as a nation that has been at permanent war for more than 70 years, the way violence is our calling …
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Seven of the Most Striking Ways States Have Loosened Gun Laws
More than half of the nation's deadliest shooting have happened in the past five years. During that same time, states have only made gun laws less strict.
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Egypt’s New Pharaoh
Liberal democrats and intellectuals help build a broad movement, but they are now a hindrance to single-party rule and are being crushed.