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The Fire This Time: Black Youth and the Spectacle of Postracial Violence
Youth-led social movements are calling for structural changes to address institutional racism, not just police reforms.
The Worst of All Possible Worlds: Did Market Leninism Win the Cold War?
Instead of the best of all possible worlds, the international community now faces an unholy trinity of authoritarian politics, cutthroat economics and Big Brother surveillance.
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A Fossil-Fueled Fantasy
Coal-burning power plants that capture carbon aren't worth the expense.
Pipeline Owner in Santa Barbara Oil Spill Has Had 175 “Spill Incidents” Since 2006
Offshore fracking has been used hundreds of times in recent years off California's coast.
Forty Acres and a Mule Would Be at Least $6.4 Trillion Today: What the US Really Owes Black America
This infographic lays out the case for reparations.
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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.
“Good Kill” Asks, “Why Do We Wear Our Flight Suits, Sir?“
The new drone warfare movie starring Ethan Hawke gives a better sense of the effects of the US drone program.
Why Did Mexican Police Make 43 Student Teachers Disappear?
Forty-three mostly indigenous student teachers disappeared in Mexico after they challenged the lucrative, private school industry.
How US Private Prisons Profit From Immigrant Detention
Alternatives to detention do exist.
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A Pipeline Strikes Deep in the Heart of Texas
One of the last unspoiled regions in Texas faces construction of a pipeline wider than Keystone to supply Mexico with US fracked gas.